(Part 2) Top products from r/climate

Here are some tips to get started:

• This funny and good presentation by Dan Ariely is a good start about human moral behavior (assuming you agree that climate change is a moral problem). There's also a book if you prefer that.
  
• Another important point are the limitations of human morality. A short read would be Paul Bloom's piece in the New Yorker. Again, there's also a book. See also the The Identifiable Victim Bias.
  
• A description of these and various other effects can be fund in George Marshall's "Don't even think about it" which is specifically about the psychology of climate change.
  
  Hope this helps.

My understanding of the ethics is largely based on my readings of Climate Change Ethics: Navigating the Perfect Moral Storm.

A reviewer commented "Dr.Brown is very concrete so the reader is guided through the relevancy of scientific, economic, and policy issues with concrete ethical theory".

I'd highly recommend the book.

Try these:
Electricity Grid Infrastructure,
Oil and Natural Gas Infrastructure.
Maybe this site can help with some basic information. Valclav Smil is an excellent source for many areas you're investigating: Energy Transitions, Energy Myths and Realities, Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing, Oil, Prime Movers of Globalization, and Energy at the Crossroads

Sure it's depressing, but some people are intentionally evil, willing to actively lie to get what they want. They're called sociopaths, and they make up 2-4% of the population. They are defined by a strong personal sense of superiority, a reckless disregard for "little people's rules", a ruthless willingness to screw anyone for personal gain, and a psychotic confidence that they'll be able to lie their way out of any jam. Sound familiar?

It sounds like you're working on an interesting project, so the questions you spam us with would probably be interesting as well.

The standard textbook for undergraduates (at several universities that I know of) is Earth's Climate: Past and Future. It's great, lots of detail but also very approachable.

If you want something a little more academic, try John Houghton's Global Warming: The Complete Briefing: 5th edition. It's an introductory textbook on Climate Change - it doesn't go into fine detail on how data sets are collected and managed, and any textbook like this will always be a little out-of-date. But it is a broad and comprehensive overview of the science of climate change, and the many consequences that flow from it.

There's a reason that stuff like the Green New Deal puts the jobs parts up front, and we've got people writing books about what a green jobs program would look like.

Go to your college library and check out this book. It has the answers your looking for in the context of the American southwest, which is as far as the US in concerned, is predicted to have the most problems with freshwater supply.
A Great Aridness

Scott Adams needs to read this book: https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Worst-That-Could-Happen/dp/0399535012/

and listen to this podcast:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/scienceshow/consilience-powers-the-big-scientific-ideas/5111610

read Too Much Magic by Kunstler first, then ask the same question...

https://www.amazon.com/Destructive-Creation-American-Business-Politics/dp/0812224310


https://marianamazzucato.com/entrepreneurial-state/

Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know® https://www.amazon.com/dp/0190866101/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_zZOADb29KTXEB

pp. 123-127

https://www.amazon.com/Climate-Change-Everyone-Needs-Know/dp/0190250178/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1498603345&sr=8-1&keywords=climate+change+what+everyone+needs+to+know

> It is not clear what is delaying the Court of Appeals’ Mann decision.

Really? Aside from the court process being a disaster, and the Judge being known as one of the slowest ever, I would think that Mann standing up in court and defending himself, while many of his fellow scientists are throwing him under the bus can't help him any.

Nardo is correct about this, it so happens.

Hollywood celebrities aren't a reliable source of scientific knowledge, especially including high school dropouts.

A question that has been posited, for instance, is "Is Gwyneth Paltrow wrong about everything?" And there's no doubt that she's wrong about a hell of a lot. And yet she still offers her opinion with no sign of self awareness.

I am reminded of that first year psychology lab where you make a bunch of pigeons superstitious by feeding them randomly. By the end of the year they each have an intricate ritual of movements that they believe increases their chance of food.

Hollywood offers ridiculously affluent careers on a pretty much random basis. Those that succeed think that the're on to something, just as the pigeons do.

So confirm that they're based in reality when Hollywood stars tell you stuff.

But Nardo is correct about this. Good on him for using his celebrity to raise awareness of this issue that is indeed an existential crisis for large whacks of civilization.