End Notes

Are there online communities to talk about Climate Conversations?

If you’re like the participants of the Climate Outreach study on having climate conversations, you might find the support and insight of a community of people ‘talking climate’ valuable.

If you’d like to discuss this book, wider climate and environment issues, or share stories and tips on having climate conversations, check out the website below for a list of online communities.

For example, take to Twitter with the hashtag #TalkingClimate. Feel free to tag this project – @Lets_Discuss_CC.

Or, join the forums linked below, or the Reddit community reddit.com/r/AGiftForConversation. Or start your own community! agiftforconversation.com/community

How to give this book to others

Are there people in your own life who you’d like to start having these discussions with? Your own story, your own desires for the future and your own actions and struggles are powerful tools to help spread the message of Climate Change.

If you’d like to give this book to others, details for how to purchase more copies can be found at: agiftforconversation.com/climate

Where to find the references & footnotes

The references and footnotes for this book can be found online. Here you can find the articles, websites and scientific publications behind the facts and ideas in this book. Find these at: agiftforconversation.com/climate/references

Acknowledgements

Writing this book has been a fantastic experience of learning and collaboration. Many proof-readers and scientific reviewers have left their fingerprints on it.

I’m indebted to Masud, Jo H., Lucie, Pete, Abi, Tristram, Jo K., and my brother Harry for reading and improving early copies. Also to Aaron, Sam and Helena for help with the cover. Thanks too to all the friends, former colleagues, scientists, activists and writers who lent their advice.

I’m especially grateful to my partner Steph, and my dad Graham for their honesty and skill at helping me rip the book up and piece it back together again, much improved. And finally to Geo, for his talent and ideas in making such beautiful illustrations.

About the author

Dr Louis Keal is a physicist, and professional scientific communicator. In early 2021, he left a career in marketing and education in the scientific camera industry to pursue activism and voluntary work on

Climate Change action full time – starting with writing the book you’re holding now!

Louis’s other works include a vast 2.5m by 1.5m ‘portable climate science museum’. This took the form of a canvas poster for events and protests to explain the facts of Climate Change to the public. To date, over 60 of these have been produced by climate activism and outreach groups in multiple countries.

He can be contacted via: louis@agiftforconversation.com, Twitter: @Lets_Discuss_CC, Instagram: @a_gift_for_conversation.book, Facebook: facebook.com/AGiftForConv.Book