Can clouds buy us more time to solve climate change?

Learn about climate change directly from the source: read the foundational scientific literature for yourself!

I don’t understand how anyone could be against environmental protection, and this is an enormous failure of imagination on my part. In this book, Berkeley sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild visits deep red Louisiana to try and climb this "empathy wal." She argues that the "deep stories" we tell ourselves make it hard to talk to each other. There are no easy answers here, but this book helped me understand how people could hate the pollution that ruins their land and makes them sick but hate the possibility of regulation even more.

This wide-ranging book by TED Science Curator David Biello is a good introduction to the new world we're making for ourselves. Packed with interesting facts and incisive character studies, it will make you think, and it might make you cry — but it won’t make you lose hope.

The Bloomberg team did a brilliant job bringing our model data to life in this award-winning visual story.

Certain people like to tell climate scientists that "climate's changed before," as if we weren’t the ones who figured that out! This XKCD comic puts these changes in context.

Professor Ed Hawkins, climate visualizer extraordinaire, shows global temperatures quickly spiraling out of control.

In these charming videos, Oxford University Ph.D Adam Levy takes a wonderfully silly but accurate approach to a deadly serious subject.