Library Guides: Climate Change: Books

LC Subject Headings

Many books on the topic will be under the following subject headings or their narrower terms. Climate change has several different subcategories, narrowing the topic down to specific parts of the world including countries and states. There are also further classifications that deal with governmental policies on climate change, including the policies of the United States. Some subject headings that may be useful include:

Sample Books in the Main Collection

Global warming : a very short introduction

Author: Mark Maslin

Published: 2004

ISBN: 0192840975

Call number: QC981.8.G56 M38 2004

Hell and high water : global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do

Author: Joseph J. Romm

Published: 2007

ISBN: 9780061172120

Call number: QC981.8.G56 R66 2007

Global warming [electronic resource] : myth or reality : the erring ways of climatology

Author: Marcel Leroux

Published: 2005

ISBN: 3540281002

Resource link

Call number: QC981.8.G56 L47 2005eb

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