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Field Notes from a Catastrophe
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Kolbert's 2006 climate reporting from Alaska, Greenland, the Netherlands: the science and the early signs. Still a model of calm reporting.
Read it if…
you want climate change grounded in places.
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Skip it if…
you want the latest data.
Try instead: The Uninhabitable Earth →
Three things you will actually use
- See the signs.
- Science was clear early.
- Report, do not rant.
Do this first
Read the Alaska chapter.
Our verdict
Kolbert's field notes.
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