Resources
Recommended Articles
On climate change:
Global Warming 101: The Past, Present and Future of Climate Change (The Economist, 21 September 2019), available here.
Earth Risks Tipping Into 'Hothouse State': Study by Kerry Sheridan (Phys.org, 6 August 2018), available here.
How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong by Eugene Linden (The New York Times, 8 November 2019), available here.
Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises by National Research Council (National Academies Press, 2002), available here.
Sir David Attenborough: 'I've Been Talking About This for 30 Years...and Nobody's Taken Any Notice' by Jessamy Calkin (The Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2020), available here.
How the Oil Industry Made Us Doubt Climate Change by Phoebe Keane (BBC, 19 September 2019), available here.
TimeSigns: Now What? by Virginia Morell (National Geographic, undated), available here.
The Audacious PR Plot That Seeded Doubt About Climate Change (BBC, 23 July 2022), available here.
On the clean energy revolution:
The Road to Clean Energy by Simon Jack (BBC, 2019), available here.
Special Report: The Energy Transition (FT, 6 October 2020), available here.
The Hydrogen Revolution Is a Marvellous Chance for Britain, If It Does Not Throw Away the Prize by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (The Daily Telegraph, 15 Juily 2020), available here.
The IEA’s Damascene Conversion: Net Zero Makes Us Richer and Cuts Energy Costs for the Poor by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard (The Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2021), available here.
On nuclear power:
Nuclear Explained (US Energy Information Administration, 17 April 2020), available here.
The Silent Giant: The Need for Nuclear in a Clean Energy System (World Nuclear Association, 2019), available here.
We Can't Solve Climate Change Without Nuclear Power by Daniel Poneman (Scientific American, 24 May 2019), available here.
Nuclear Radiation and Health Effects (World Nuclear Association, 2018), available here.
The Chernobyl Accident: UNSCEAR's Assessments of the Radiation Effects (UNSCEAR, 2008), available here.
Why Fukushima Made Me Stop Worrying and Love Nuclear Power by George Monbiot (The Guardian, 21 March 2011), available here.
Nuclear Scare Stories Are a Gift to the Truly Lethal Coal Industry by George Monbiot (The Guardian, 16 December 2013), available here.
Why HBO's 'Chernobyl' Gets Nuclear So Wrong by Michael Shellenberger (Forbes, 6 June 2019), available here.
Chernobyl, the HBO Miniseries: Fact and Fiction by Robert Gale (The Cancer Letter, 2019), available here.
£20bn to Build Hinkley and More Power Stations to Come - But Can Britain Afford to Invest in Nuclear Energy? by Julia Bradshaw (The Daily Telegraph, 14 September 2019), available here.
German Failure on the Road to a Renewable Future (Der Spiegel, 13 May 2019), available here.
Can Nuclear Power Offer a Way Out of the Climate Crisis? by Philip Bethge (Der Spiegel, 7 January 2020), available here.
Climate Change: Is Nuclear Power the Answer? by Roger Harrabin (BBC, 17 January 2019), available here.
We Must Take On Russia and China's Energy Dominance By Going Big On Nuclear by Michael Shellenberger and Christopher Barnard (The Daily Telegraph, 4 September 2020), available here.
Idea of Renewables Powering UK Is An 'Appalling Delusion' - David MacKay by Damian Carrington (The Guardian, 3 May 2016), available here.
Why Renewables Can't Save the Planet by Michael Shellenberger (Quillette, 27 February 2019), available here.
The $2.5 Trillion Reason We Can't Rely On Batteries to Clean Up the Grid by James Temple (MIT Technology Review, 27 July 2018), available here.
Why I Left Extinction Rebellion to Campaign For Nuclear Power by Zion Lights (The Daily Telegraph, 10 September 2020), available here.
Nuclear Power Is a Huge Opportunity to Save the Planet and Boost Our Economy by Zion Lights (The Sunday Telegraph, 4 October 2020), available here.
The Big Read: The Nuclear Option - Can Atomic Power Save the Human Race From Climate Change? by Neil Mackay (The Herald, 4 October 2020), available here.
Is Germany Making the Correct Decision by Closing Down Its Nuclear Power Plants? by James Murray (NS Energy, 11 February 2020), available here.
Without Nuclear Power, the World's Climate Challenge Will Get a Whole Lot Harder by Fatih Birol and Rafael Mariano Grossi (CNN, 9 October 2020), available here.
The World Needs Nuclear Power and We Shouldn't Be Afraid of It by Ethan Siegel (Forbes, 21 October 2020), available here.
Fukushima Radiation Did Not Damage Health of Local People, UN Says by Justin McCurry (The Guardian, 10 March 2021), available here.
If We Want to Fight the Climate Crisis, We Must Embrace Nuclear Power by Bhaskar Sunkara (The Guardian, 21 June 2021), available here.
In Global Energy Crisis, Anti-Nuclear Chickens Come Home to Roost by Ted Nordhaus (Foreign Policy, 8 October 2021), available here.
Stoppt den Atomausstieg! by Rainer Moormann and Anna Veronika Wendland (Die Zeit, 15 July 2020), available here.
Recommended Books
On climate change:
The Thinking Person's Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson (American Meteorological Society, 2019), available here.
The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future by Richard Alley (Princeton University Press, 2014), available here.
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change by Fred Pearce (Beacon, 2007), available here.
On the clean energy revolution:
Earth: The Operators' Manual by Richard Alley (Norton, 2011), available here.
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David MacKay (UIT Cambridge, 2008), available for free download here.
A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow by Joshua Goldstein and Staffan Qvist (Public Affairs, 2019), available here.
On nuclear power:
Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century by Ian Hore-Lacy (World Nuclear Association, 2018), available here.
Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction by Maxwell Irvine (Oxford University Press, 2011), available here.
Nuclear 2.0: Why a Green Future Needs Nuclear Power by Mark Lynas (UIT Cambridge, 2013), available here.
Climate Gamble: Is Anti-nuclear Activism Endangering Our Future? by Rauli Partanen and Janne Korhonen (CreateSpace, 2017), available here.
Radiation and Reason: The Impact of Science on a Culture of Fear by Wade Allison (Wade Allison Publishing, 2009), available here.
Nuclear Is for Life: A Cultural Revolution by Wade Allison (Wade Allison Publishing, 2015), available here.
Radiation: What It Is, What You Need to Know by Robert Peter Gale and Eric Lax (Vintage, 2013), available here.
Recommended Podcasts
On climate change:
How They Made Us Doubt Everything (BBC Radio 4, 27 July 2020), available here.
On the clean energy revolution:
The World Turned Upside Down (BBC Radio 4, 5 January 2020), available here.
On nuclear power:
Gerry Thomas Questions Our Fear of Nuclear Power (ABC RN Science Show, 2019), available here.
Fallout: The Legacy of Chernobyl (BBC Radio 4, 26 April 2011), available here.
Interview with Malcolm Grimston (Titans of Nuclear, 2019), available here.
Recommended Videos
On climate change:
Years of Living Dangerously (Showtime, 2014), first episode available to stream for free here.
Big Oil v the World (BBC, 2022), available here.
On the clean energy revolution:
Happening: A Clean Energy Revolution (HBO, 2017), documentary available here.
Earth: The Operators' Manual (PBS, 2012), all three episodes available to stream for free here.
A Reality Check on Renewables (David MacKay, 2013), available here.
Bill Gates Talks About the Future of Energy (Wall Street Journal, 2012), available here.
Breakthrough in Renewable Energy (VPRO, 2016), available here.
On nuclear power:
Pandora's Promise (Robert Stone Productions, 2013), documentary available here.
Pandora's Promise Tour - Nuclear Communication (Robert Stone, 2015), available here.
Why Radiation Is Safe and All Nations Should Embrace Nuclear Technology (Wade Allison, 2014), available here.
Nuclear Energy and Climate Change (Bret Kugelmass, 2019), available here.
Nuclear Power: The Road to a Carbon Free Future (IAEA, 2020), available here.
Bloomberg Green: The Nuclear Power Problem (Bloomberg, 2021), available here.
What Happened in Fukushima Is Killing 1,000s of People, But Not the Way You Think (Emergency Reactor, 2021), available here.
Do We Need Nuclear Energy to Solve the Climate Emergency? (Emergency Reactor, 2021), available here.
Elon Musk Bullish on Future of Nuclear Energy (Greek Reporter, 28 September 2021), available here.
On renewables:
Germany's Renewable Energy Revolution (Germany Trade and Invest, 2015), available here.
Why Storage Is Key for a Renewable Energy Future (Ken Regelson, 2017), available here.