Global Warming Resources

 

Books:

 

Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning  George Monbiot’s excellent investigation into whether (and how) we can make a practical difference to global warming.

 

 

Movies:

 

An Inconvenient Truth  The documentary version of Al Gore’s “slideshow” on global warming.

 

 

Articles, Reports and Papers:

 

The Stern Review on Climate Change  An enormously influential report commissioned by the UK government, and covering economic consequences of climate change (October 2006).

 

Dust to dust   CNW Marketing Research’s report on total life cycle costs (from an environmental perspective) of various vehicles (December 2006).

 

The true cost of low carbon transport  A very readable UK engineering perspective on transport options (December 2006).

 

Stern Report  An engineering-oriented, skeptical discussion of the Stern Review (December 2006).

 

Top 10 ways to Equip Your Car for a Greener Planet  Fairly superficial but intereting article giving US consumer perspective on vehicle choices.

 

 

Websites:

 

My blog!   In which I ramble on about global warming from a personal perspective, with a strong emphasis on technology.

 

The green vehicle guide   An Australian government website with lots of information and a database for vehicle comparison (Australian vehicles, that is).