Reading the climate
From the chemistry of carbon to designing for the disaster.
Climate shows up across the corpus as science, as policy, as venture, and as design. This trail walks from the physical problem out to what we build in response.
5 books · in order
Howard J. Herzog · MIT Press · 2025
Start with the mechanism: what removing carbon actually means, and costs.
Jennifer Morris · Springer Nature · 2025
Then the epistemics: how to reason under deep uncertainty.
Libby Hsu · Springer Nature · 2026
Where it lands on people: water security and public health.
Ben Soltoff · Wiley · 2025
The response as a venture: building climate and energy solutions.
Miho Mazereeuw · University of Virginia Press · 2026
And as design: a whole culture organized around preparedness.