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    Category: Environment & Climate Change

    Climate Shock

    Climate Shock

    Authors: Gernot Wagner, Martin L. Weitzman
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    Following on the Stern report, this powerfully eloquent and informative book (50 pages of notes and 30 of bibliography) describes the economic consequences of a…… Read More »

    Authors: David Ray Griffin, Elizabeth Woodworth
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    This is a practical follow-up to David Griffin's seminal book on climate change, Unprecedented, which I reviewed in these pages last year. It builds on…… Read More »
    Climate Change and Anthropos

    Climate Change and Anthropos

    Author: Linda H. Connor
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    In this book, anthropologist Linda Connor offers an analysis of planet, people and places in relation to climate change, with a special focus on the…… Read More »
    China Confronts Climate Change

    China Confronts Climate Change

    Author: Peter H. Koehn
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    If one did not already realise, the foreword to this significant book highlights that China is currently responsible for one third of the the world's…… Read More »
    UNPRECEDENTED

    UNPRECEDENTED

    Author: David Ray Griffin
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    Reactions to the recent Paris climate accord have been broadly positive, although with many reservations owing to its structure and lack of binding commitments. Elizabeth…… Read More »
    REQUIEM FOR A SPECIES

    REQUIEM FOR A SPECIES

    Author: Clive Hamilton
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    Subtitled 'why we resist the truth about climate change', the title says it all. Are we in fact doomed? Even Lord Rees, the immediate past…… Read More »
    State of the World 2009 - Confronting Climate Change

    State of the World 2009 - Confronting Climate Change

    Author: Worldwatch Institute
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    Published every year in 28 languages, this book always represents essential reading, in this case focusing on the topical issue of climate change and within…… Read More »
    Earth in the Balance

    Earth in the Balance

    Author: Al Gore
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    I reviewed this book when it first came out in 1992, since when Al Gore has been vice president of the United States and has…… Read More »
    Nature's Revenge? Hurricanes, Floods and Climate Change

    Nature's Revenge? Hurricanes, Floods and Climate Change

    Author: Tony Gilland
    Reviewer: David Lorimer
    Category: Environment & Climate Change
    Another Institute of Ideas book examining the claim that hurricanes, floods and climate change are nature's wake-up call. The four authors line up two on…… Read More »

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