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[[File:Caricature climate change Gerhard Mester english.png|thumb|A [[Satire|satirical]] cartoon about [[sea level rise]].]]

References to '''climate change in popular culture''' have existed since the late 20th century and increased in the 21st century. [[Climate change]], its [[Effects of climate change|impacts]], and related [[Environmental sociology|human-environment interactions]] have been featured in [[Nonfiction|nonfiction books]] and [[Documentary film|documentaries]], but also [[Climate fiction|literature]], [[film]], [[Popular music|music]], [[television show]]s and [[Global warming game|video games]].

Science historian [[Naomi Oreskes]] noted in 2005 "a huge disconnect between what professional scientists have studied and learned in the last 30 years, and what is out there in the popular culture."<ref>((cite news |first=Sandi |last=Doughton |title=The truth about global warming |url=http://www.seattletimes.com/special-reports/the-truth-about-global-warming/ |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=October 11, 2005))</ref> An academic study in 2000 contrasted the relatively rapid acceptance of [[ozone depletion]] as reflected in popular culture with the much slower acceptance of the [[Scientific opinion on climate change|scientific consensus on climate change]].<ref>Sheldon Ungar, "[http://pus.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/9/3/297 Knowledge, ignorance and the popular culture: Climate change versus the ozone hole]," ''Science'' 9.3 (2000) 297-312.</ref> Cultural responses have been posited as an important part of [[Climate communication|communicating climate change]], but commentators have noted covering the topic has posed challenges due to its abstract nature.<ref>((Cite web |date=2014-06-11 |title=Why the cultural response to global warming makes for a heated debate |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/why-the-cultural-response-to-global-warming-makes-for-a-heated-debate-9524081.html |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=The Independent |language=en))</ref><ref name=":4" /> The prominence of climate change in popular culture increased during the 2010s, influenced by the [[climate movement]], shifts in [[Public opinion on climate change|public opinion]] and changes in [[Media coverage of climate change|media coverage]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

== Art ==
((Excerpt|Climate change art))

==Film==
((Further|:Category:Climate change films|))

=== Fictional films ===
Climate change has been an occasional topic in fictional cinema.<ref name=":3">((Cite web |last=Townsend |first=Solitaire |title=The Seven Climate Movies (And The One We Need Next) |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/solitairetownsend/2022/01/02/the-seven-climate-movies-and-the-one-we-need-next/ |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=Forbes |language=en))</ref> Nicholas Barber opined in [[BBC Culture]] that [[Hollywood film|Hollywood]] films seldom feature [[Attribution of recent climate change|climate change mechanisms]] due to the difficulty of tying the topic to individual characters, and due to fears of alienating audiences; instead, [[Effects of climate change|impacts of climate change]] have been more frequently depicted as a consequence of nuclear or [[geoengineering]] accidents.<ref name=":4">((Cite web |last=Barber |first=Nicholas |title=Why does cinema ignore climate change? |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200416-why-does-cinema-ignore-climate-change |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en))</ref>
* ''[[Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea]]'' (1961) – A [[meteor shower]] ignites the [[Van Allen radiation belt]] and causes [[Abrupt climate change|abrupt global warming]] that will render Earth uninhabitable within three weeks, which the [[United Nations]] attempts to solve by sending the submarine [[USOS Seaview|USOS ''Seaview'']] into the [[Mariana Trench]] to fire a [[Nuclear Missile|nuclear missile]] at the flaming belt.
*''[[The Day the Earth Caught Fire]]'' (1961) – [[Nuclear weapons testing]] by the [[United States]] and the [[Soviet Union]] tilt the Earth's [[Astronomical nutation|nutation]] by 11 degrees, causing Earth to begin spiraling towards the Sun and global temperatures to rise. The world's governments attempt to solve the problem by detonating nuclear bombs in [[Siberia]] to correct the tilt.
*''[[Soylent Green]]'' (1973), film directed by [[Richard Fleischer]] and starring [[Charlton Heston]]. Set in a [[dystopia]]n future of dying oceans and year-round [[humidity]] due to the [[greenhouse effect]], resulting in suffering from pollution, poverty, [[Human overpopulation|overpopulation]] and [[Resource depletion|depleted resources]].
* ''[[Blade Runner]]'' (1982), a film directed by [[Ridley Scott]] and starring [[Harrison Ford]] and [[Rutger Hauer]], is set in a humid rainy climate changed [[Los Angeles]] in an alternate 2015, based loosely on the novel ''[[Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]]''. Its 2017 sequel ''[[Blade Runner 2049]]'' is also noted for its depiction of a warmer climate.<ref>((Cite web|last=Barnett|first=David|title=Are we living in a Blade Runner world?|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20191111-are-we-living-in-a-blade-runner-world|access-date=2021-06-14|website=www.bbc.com|language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web|date=2017-10-05|title=New 'Blade Runner' gives climate change a starring role|url=https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/new-blade-runner-gives-climate-change-a-starring-role|access-date=2021-06-14|website=Washington Examiner|language=en))</ref>
* ''[[Split Second (1992 film)|Split Second]]'', 1992 film starring [[Rutger Hauer]] and [[Kim Cattrall]] is set in 2008, in a [[London]] that is flooded as a result of global warming.
* ''[[Waterworld]]'' (1995) starring [[Kevin Costner]].  Set in 2500, where the [[polar ice cap]]s have melted due to global warming and the [[Earth]] is almost entirely covered with water.
* ''[[The Arrival (1996 film)|The Arrival]]'' (1996), starring [[Charlie Sheen]]. Extraterrestrial aliens attempt to secretly cause global warming and thereby [[terraforming|terraform]] Earth into an environment more suited to their needs.
* ''[[A.I. Artificial Intelligence]]'' (2001), set in climate changed world near flooded ruins of [[New York City]], where [[global warming]] has led to [[ecological disaster]]s all over the world in the mid-22nd century. 2,000 years later, the world has entered a new ice age and is populated by advanced robots known as Specialists.
*''[[The Day After Tomorrow]]'' (2004) directed by [[Roland Emmerich]] and starring [[Dennis Quaid]].<ref name=":4" />  An abrupt [[shutdown of thermohaline circulation]] causes catastrophic [[abrupt climate change]], plunging the [[Northern Hemisphere]] into a new [[ice age]]. As a result, the [[Northern United States]], [[Canada]], [[Europe]], [[East Asia]], and [[Russia]] are devastated by massive [[winter storm]]s, and the surviving population of the [[United States]] is evacuated to [[Mexico]]. The film has been cited as one of the few blockbuster films to discuss climate change.<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" /><ref>((Cite web |title=Climate change: Disaster movie director Roland Emmerich says we need more blockbusters tackling environmental issues |url=https://news.sky.com/story/climate-change-disaster-movie-director-roland-emmerich-says-we-need-more-blockbusters-tackling-environmental-issues-12498945 |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=Sky News |language=en))</ref> 
*''[[The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008 film)|The Day the Earth Stood Still]]'' (2008) – Klaatu lands on Earth as an alien delegation to either convince humanity to halt its destructive behavior or destroy it. The film notably updates the [[The Day the Earth Stood Still|original film]]'s [[Cold War]]-era concern with [[nuclear warfare]] and [[Mutual assured destruction|mutually assured destruction]] into the contemporary issue of climate change.
*''[[The Thaw (2009 film)|The Thaw]]'' (2009) – Melting ice caps defrost the remains of a [[woolly mammoth]] infected with deadly parasites, which spread to a research crew sent to [[Banks Island]].
* ''[[The Age of Stupid]]'' (2009), drama-documentary-animation hybrid directed by [[Franny Armstrong]] and starring [[Pete Postlethwaite]] as a man living alone in the devastated world of 2055, watching archive footage from 2008 and asking "Why didn't we stop climate change when we had the chance?"<ref>((Cite web |date=2014-10-30 |title=Cli-Fi Is Real |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cli-fi-is-real_b_6072518 |access-date=2022-03-21 |website=HuffPost |language=en))</ref>
* ''[[Earth 2100]]'' (2009), predictions of possible attempts at [[Adaptation to global warming|adaptation to]] and [[Mitigation of global warming|mitigation of]] the [[Effects of global warming|effects of continuing global warming]].
*''[[Birdemic: Shock and Terror]]'' (2010) and ''[[Birdemic 2: The Resurrection]]'' (2013), where global warming mutates birds to begin attacking humanity.
* ''The Expedition to the End of the World'' (2013), director: [[Daniel Dencik]], relating to the [[Greenland ice sheet]] and the [[retreat of glaciers since 1850]].
* ''[[The Colony (2013 film)|The Colony]]'' (2013), climate modification towers are built to cool the planet, but cause an Ice Age, forcing humans to live underground.
* ''[[Snowpiercer]]'' is a 2014 fictional film regarding a problematic [[solar geoengineering]] attempt that inadvertently freezes the earth.<ref name=":7">((Cite web |last=Svoboda |first=Michael |date=2014-10-22 |title=A review of climate fiction (cli-fi) cinema ... past and present » Yale Climate Connections |url=http://yaleclimateconnections.org/2014/10/a-review-of-climate-fiction-cli-fi-cinema-past-and-present/ |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=Yale Climate Connections |language=en-US))</ref>
* [[Into the Storm (2014 film)|''Into the Storm'']] (2014), in which a character hints that major storms are becoming more frequent.<ref name=":7" />
* ''[[First Reformed]]'' is a 2017 film in which an [[Reformed Church in America]] pastor discovers the causes and effects of [[climate change]] and attempts to take violent action against those he considers responsible.
*''[[Climate Change Denial Disorder]]'' is a [[satire|satirical]] [[short film]] which [[parody|parodies]] [[climate change denial]] and perspectives on [[climate change]] through discussion of a [[fictional disease]].<ref name="theguardian">((citation|access-date=April 9, 2016|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/19/peoples-climate-march-al-gore-leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change|work=[[The Guardian]]|title= Handle with humor: why we want you to laugh about climate change |first=Travis|last=Irvine|date=June 19, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151215130007/http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/19/peoples-climate-march-al-gore-leonardo-dicaprio-climate-change|archive-date=December 15, 2015))</ref><ref name="mellino">((citation|access-date=April 9, 2016|first=Cole|last=Mellino|work=EcoWatch|date=April 16, 2015|title=Funny or Die Video: How to Diagnose Climate Change Denial Disorder|url=http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/16/funny-or-die-ed-begley-jr/|archive-date=March 17, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160317021716/http://ecowatch.com/2015/04/16/funny-or-die-ed-begley-jr/))</ref><ref name="swann">((citation|first=Jennifer|last=Swann|work=TakePart|publisher=[[Participant Media]]|date=April 16, 2015|access-date=April 9, 2016|url=http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/16/climate-change-funny-or-die|title=The Made-Up Disease That Affects More People in Power Than You Think|archive-date=August 8, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150808201107/http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/04/16/climate-change-funny-or-die))</ref>
*''[[Downsizing (film)|Downsizing]]'' (2017) – In the future scientists discover a method to shrink humans to size of five inches to solve climate change and overpopulation. The technique fails when only three percent of the population choose to undergo it, with its inventor discovering that humanity will go extinct from [[positive feedback]] of [[Arctic methane emissions]] within 100 years.<ref name=":3" /> 
*''[[Geostorm]]'' (2017) – Natural disasters caused by climate change lead humanity to construct a network of [[weather modification]] satellites in 2019, which malfunction and cause severe weather across the world in 2022.
*''[[Fast Color]]'' (2018), is set in a future [[Midwestern United States|American Midwest]] suffering from an eight-year [[Droughts in the United States|drought]].
*''[[Bo Burnham: Inside]]'' (2021), the special includes several references to climate change and the danger of a [[climate apocalypse]].<ref>((Cite web|date=2021-06-28|title=Bo Burnham is not joking about the climate apocalypse|url=https://grist.org/culture/bo-burnham-netflix-inside-not-joking-about-climate-change/|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Grist|language=en-us))</ref> For instance, the lyric "20,000 years of this, seven more to go," in the song "That Funny Feeling" is believed to be a reference to the [[Climate Clock]] showing the time left to reduce greenhouse gas emissions before [[Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C|1.5 C global warming]] becomes inevitable.<ref>((Cite web|last=Renfro|first=Kim|title=31 details you might have missed in Bo Burnham's 'Inside'|url=https://www.insider.com/bo-burnham-inside-special-details-analysis-breakdown-2021-6|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Insider|language=en-US))</ref>
*''[[The Tomorrow War]]'' (2021), melting ice sheets from global warming thaw a frozen spaceship under the [[Academy of Sciences Glacier]] from the 10th century AD filled with weaponized bio-engineered aliens known as "Whitespikes" in November 2048, which completely overrun Earth and almost completely annihilate humanity by 2051.
*''[[Reminiscence (2021 film)|Reminiscence]]'' (2021), a film set in a post-apocalyptic future where [[Miami]] has been flooded by the ocean due to climate change.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.theaureview.com/watch/the-past-and-present-collide-for-hugh-jackman-in-first-reminiscence-trailer/|title = The past and present collide for Hugh Jackman in first Reminiscence trailer|date = 3 June 2021))</ref> 
*''[[Don't Look Up (2021 film)|Don't Look Up]]'' (2021). An apocalyptic black comedy film, in which two astronomers from [[Michigan State University]] unsuccessfully attempt to warn the world of a [[comet]] coming to [[Impact event|impact Earth]] and destroy humanity within six months. The film is intended to [[Satire|satirize]] public [[Climate change denial|denial]] and apathy towards climate change from governments, the media, and corporations.<ref>((Cite web|last=Ovenden|first=Olivia|date=2021-11-13|title=Adam McKay Is Still Trying to See the Funny Side in All This|url=https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/film/a38157701/dont-look-up-adam-mckay-interview/|access-date=2022-01-05|website=Esquire|language=en-GB))</ref><ref name=":3" />
*[[How to Blow Up a Pipeline (film)|''How to Blow Up a Pipeline'']] (2022), based on the non-fictional book of the same name by [[Andreas Malm]]

=== Documentary films ===
((Further|Category:Documentary films about global warming))
*''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'' (2006) is an American documentary film made in 2006 directed by [[Davis Guggenheim]] which covers former [[Vice President of the United States|United States Vice President]] [[Al Gore]]'s campaign related to raising awareness about [[global warming]].<ref>((Cite web|title=An Inconvenient Truth (2006)|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0497116/|website=IMDB))</ref> ''[[An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power]]'' is a follow-up film released in 2017.
* ''[[The 11th Hour (2007 film)|The 11th Hour]]'' (2007), created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
*''Signos: Banta ng Pagbabagong Klima'', a 2008 Philippine [[television documentary]] presented and narrated by actor [[Richard Gutierrez]] and aired on [[GMA Network]].<ref>((cite news|date=April 10, 2008|title=Signos: Banta ng nagbabagong klima" to be replayed on QTV 11|website=[[GMA News and Public Affairs|GMA News]]|url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/publicaffairs/content/88685/signos-banta-ng-nagbabagong-klima-to-be-replayed-on-qtv-11/story/|access-date=November 20, 2020))</ref>
*''[[The Great Global Warming Swindle]]'', a 2009 polemical film that [[Climate change denial|denies the existence of climate change]].
* ''[[Carbon Nation]]'', a 2010 documentary film.
* ''[[Chasing Ice]]'', a 2012 [[documentary film]].
*[[White Knight (film)|''White Knight'']], a 2012 documentary film
* ''[[Thin Ice (2013 documentary film)|Thin Ice]]'', a 2013 documentary film.
*[[Merchants of Doubt (film)|''Merchants of Doubt'']], a 2014 documentary based on the [[Merchants of Doubt|2010 book of the same name]]
*[[Before the Flood (film)|''Before the Flood'']], a 2016 documentary
*''[[Chasing Coral]]'', a 2017 documentary
*[[2040 (film)|''2040'']], a 2019 documentary by [[Damon Gameau]]
*''[[Climate Change – The Facts]]'', a 2019 BBC documentary presented by [[David Attenborough]]
*''[[Planet of the Humans]]'', a 2019 documentary directed by [[Michael Moore]]
*''[[I Am Greta]]'', a documentary following teenaged climate activist [[Greta Thunberg]]

==Literature==
((Further|List of climate change books))

===Non-fiction===
((See also|:Category:Climate change books))
[[File:Bill McKibben (24567952765).jpg|thumb|[[Bill McKibben]], author of ''[[The End of Nature]]''.]]
This refers to the classification [[non-fiction]], without regard to whether the books are accurate or intended to be accurate.
*''[[The End of Nature]]'' 1989 book by [[Bill McKibben]], which has been cited as the first book on climate change written for a general audience.<ref>((Cite web|date=2010-05-16|title=Environmental Writer Turns Words into Action ((!)) American Profiles ((!)) English|url=http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/american-life/profiles/Environmental-Writer-Turns-Words-into-Action-91461014.html|access-date=2022-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100516032727/http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/american-life/profiles/Environmental-Writer-Turns-Words-into-Action-91461014.html|archive-date=2010-05-16))</ref>
*''[[Our Angry Earth|Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb]]'' (1991) by [[Isaac Asimov]] and [[Frederik Pohl]]
*''[[Earth in the Balance]]'' (1992) by [[Al Gore]], recommending a "[[Global Marshall Plan]]" to resolve ecological crises such as climate change 
*''[[The Carbon War|The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era]]'' 1999 book by former oil geologist [[Jeremy Leggett]]
*''[[The Coming Global Superstorm]]'' (1999) by [[Whitley Strieber|Whitley Streiber]] and [[Art Bell]], predicting the possibility of abrupt climate change from a [[shutdown of thermohaline circulation]]
*''[[The Discovery of Global Warming]]'' 2003 [[Spencer R. Weart]] book describing the [[history of climate change science]] 
*''[[The Weather Makers]]'' (2005) by [[Tim Flannery]], a series of essays describing the [[effects of climate change]] 
*''[[Field Notes from a Catastrophe|Field notes from a catastrophe: man, nature, and climate change]]'' (2006) by [[Elizabeth Kolbert]] describing effects from climate change already occurring in the natural world, as well as opposition to climate change mitigation from corporations and the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush administration]] 
*''[[Hell and High Water (book)|Hell and High Water]]'' (2006) by [[Joseph J. Romm]] warning about the consequences of [[sea level rise]]
*''[[An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It]]'' is a 2006 book by [[Al Gore]] released in conjunction with the film ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]''. Based on Gore's lecture tour on the topic of [[global warming]] this book elaborates upon points offered in the film. It "brings together leading-edge research from top scientists around the world; photographs, charts, and other illustrations; and personal anecdotes and observations to document the fast pace and wide scope of global warming."<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.oprah.com/tows/booksseen/200612/tows_book_20061205_agore.jhtml |title=Oprah's Books |access-date=2013-06-12 |archive-date=2008-02-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080225131151/http://www.oprah.com/tows/booksseen/200612/tows_book_20061205_agore.jhtml |url-status=dead ))</ref>
*''[[Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet]]'' (2007) by [[Mark Lynas]]. It presents the consequences of climate change for each additional [[Celsius|degree Celsius]] of warming, culminating in a possible 6 degree scenario in which release of [[Methane clathrate|methane hydrate]] leads to an [[extinction event]] similar to the [[Cambrian–Ordovician extinction event]]. The book was also adapted into a National Geographic Channel film. 
*''[[Scorcher: The Dirty Politics of Climate Change]]'' (2007) by [[Clive Hamilton]], criticizing the government of [[Australia]] for blocking international climate change mitigation
*[[Break Through (book)|''Break Through'']] (2007) by [[Ted Nordhaus]] and [[Michael Shellenberger]], arguing that the paradigms motivating the [[Environmental movement|environmentalist movement]] are poorly suited to resolve climate change 
*''[[An Appeal to Reason]]'' (2008) by [[Nigel Lawson]], criticizing the [[scientific consensus on climate change]]
*''[[Hot, Flat, and Crowded]]'' (2008) by [[Thomas Friedman]], arguing that the United States could reclaim a sense of purpose after the [[September 11 attacks]] and the end of the [[Cold War]] by solving issues of [[Human overpopulation|overpopulation]] and climate change
*''[[Why We Disagree About Climate Change]]'' (2009) by [[Mike Hulme]], exploring the reasons for differing ethical, political, cultural, and economic views on climate change across the world 
*''[[Carbon Shift]]'' (2009) by [[Thomas Homer-Dixon]] and Nick Garrison, explaining how the likely effects of [[peak oil]] and [[Climate change in Canada|climate change]] on [[Canada]]
*''[[Requiem for a Species]]'' (2010) by [[Clive Hamilton]], arguing that climate change has already progressed past the point at which catastrophic impacts for the world and human society, including possible [[societal collapse]] or [[Human extinction|extinction]], can be avoided 
*''[[Merchants of Doubt]]'' (2010) by [[Naomi Oreskes]] and [[Erik M. Conway]], which examines the history of [[climate change denial]] and its relationship with the [[tobacco industry playbook]].
*''[[The God Species]]'' (2011) by [[Mark Lynas]], postulating that climate change indicates that Earth has entered an [[Anthropocene|anthropocene epoch]] in which natural systems are under human control 
*''[[2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years]]'' (2012) by [[Jørgen Randers]], arguing that current trends suggest carbon emissions will peak around 2030 but that it will be insufficient to prevent 2 degree Celsius warming which will limit future [[economic growth]]
*''[[The Hockey Stick and the Climate Wars]]'' (2012) by [[Michael E. Mann]], explaining the [[temperature record of the last 2,000 years]] and his work on the so-called "[[hockey stick graph (global temperature)|hockey stick graph]]" 
*''[[This Changes Everything (book)|This Changes Everything]]'' (2014) by [[Naomi Klein]], which [[Criticism of capitalism|criticises capitalism]] as a root cause of climate change.<ref name=":5">((Cite web |date=2021-04-29 |title=8 best climate emergency books that help you to understand the crisis |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/extras/indybest/books/non-fiction-books/best-climate-change-book-reviews-earth-day-b1835624.html |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=The Independent |language=en))</ref>
*''[[The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History]]'' (2015) by [[Elizabeth Kolbert]], which won the [[Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction]] and explained the concept of the [[Holocene extinction]]
*''[[The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable]]'' (2016) by [[Amitav Ghosh]], arguing that climate change is driven by [[New Imperialism|neoimperialism]] 
*[[Drawdown (book)|''Drawdown'']] (2017) which ranks different [[Climate change mitigation|climate change solutions]].<ref name=":5" /> 
*''[[Deep Adaptation]]'' (2018) by [[Jem Bendell]], arguing that climate change has progressed too far to prevent [[societal collapse]] and that people must accept major changes to their way of life to adjust to the coming changes 
*''[[Losing Earth]]'' (2019) by [[Nathaniel Rich (novelist)|Nathaniel Rich]], based on a ''[[The New York Times Magazine|New York Times Magazine]]'' article, examining attempts to implement [[Climate change policy of the United States|climate change policies in the United States]] from 1979 into the 1980s.<ref name=":6">((Cite web |title=Books on climate change to read this Earth Day |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/shopping/eco-friendly/climate-change-books-n1264744 |access-date=2022-04-15 |website=NBC News |date=21 April 2021 |language=en))</ref>
*''[[No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference]]'' (2019) by [[Greta Thunberg]], collection of speeches presented before the [[United Nations]], the [[European Union]], the [[World Economic Forum]], the [[United States Congress]], the [[National Assembly (France)|French National Assembly]], and [[climate protests]]
*[[The Uninhabitable Earth (book)|''The Uninhabitable Earth'']] (2019) by [[David Wallace-Wells]], based on a [[The Uninhabitable Earth|2017 magazine series of the same name]] explaining the [[Effects of climate change on humans|likely consequences of climate change on human society]] in future years.<ref name=":5" />
*[[On Fire (book)|''On Fire'']] (2019) by Naomi Klein, advocating substantial climate change mitigation tactics such as the [[Green New Deal]].<ref name=":6" />
*''[[A Life on Our Planet]]'' (2020) by [[David Attenborough]], an autobiography describing his career in the [[BBC]] since the 1950s during the Holocene extinction and warning about the consequences of [[biodiversity loss]] from climate change 
*''[[How to Avoid a Climate Disaster]]'' (2021) by [[Bill Gates]], providing tactics to reach [[carbon neutrality]] by 2050, particularly greater investment in [[sustainable energy]] technology
*''[[How to Blow Up a Pipeline]]'' (2021) by [[Andreas Malm]], advocating violent techniques such as [[sabotage]] in [[Individual action on climate change|climate activism]]
*''[[The New Climate War]]'' (2021) by [[Michael E. Mann|Michael Mann]], describing resistance to climate change mitigation from the [[fossil fuel]] industry
*''[[Under a White Sky]]'' (2021) by [[Elizabeth Kolbert]], exploring possible technological solutions to climate change such as [[solar geoengineering]]

===Fiction===
((See also|Category:Climate change novels))((Excerpt|Climate fiction))

== Music ==
((Further|Environmentalism in music))Climate change has been a topic of some [[popular music]], particularly during the 2010s.<ref name=":0">((Cite news|last=Pierre-Louis|first=Kendra|date=2020-05-22|title=The Climate 'Hot 10 Songs'|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/05/21/climate/songs-about-climate-change.html|access-date=2022-02-19|issn=0362-4331))</ref><ref>((Cite news|last=Currin|first=Grayson Haver|date=2019-12-05|title=Music For Our Emergency|language=en|work=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2019/12/05/784818349/songs-our-emergency-how-music-approaching-climate-change-crisis|access-date=2022-02-19))</ref><ref name=":2">((Cite web|last=Anekwe|first=Lilian|date=2019-06-17|title=The musicians helping make climate change a cultural movement|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/2206461-the-musicians-helping-make-climate-change-a-cultural-movement/|access-date=2022-02-21|website=[[New Scientist]]|language=en-US))</ref> The topic has been discussed in various genres, including [[Pop music|pop]], [[Folk music|folk]], [[electronic music]] and [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]].<ref name=":1">((Cite web|date=2021-04-22|title=What Can Music Do During Climate Collapse?|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/overtones/climate-change-music/|access-date=2022-02-19|website=Pitchfork|language=en-US))</ref> ''[[The New York Times]]'' found 192 references to climate change in English-language songs that entered the [[Billboard charts]] between 1999 and 2019, with around half of those (87 songs) between 2015 and 2019.<ref name=":0" />
[[File:Smashmouth.jpg|thumb|American rock band [[Smash Mouth]] performing in 2011. ''[[The New York Times]]'' listed their 1999 song "[[All Star (song)|All Star]]" #1 on their list of top 10 climate change songs.<ref name=":0" />]]
* American thrash metal band [[Testament (band)|Testament]] released a song titled "Greenhouse Effect" on 1989 album ''[[Practice What You Preach]]''<ref name=":1" /> and later referenced climate change in "Fall of Sipledome" on [[The Gathering (Testament album)|''The Gathering'']] (1999).<ref name=":0" />
* American rapper [[Mos Def]]'s "New World Water" (1999) on ''[[Black on Both Sides]]'' discusses the history of water access and [[Water scarcity|scarcity]], including the impact of climate change.<ref name=":0" />
* American pop rock group [[Smash Mouth]] make reference to climate change in their songs "[[Walkin' on the Sun]]" (1997) and "[[All Star (song)|All Star]]" (1999).<ref name=":0" />
* French metal band [[Gojira (band)|Gojira]] have released several songs about climate change and environmental issues, particularly "Global Warming", "World to Come" and other songs on ''[[From Mars to Sirius]]'' (2005).<ref name=":1" /><ref>((Cite web|date=2018-06-25|title=See Gojira Debut Rare Studio Performance of "Global Warming"|url=https://www.revolvermag.com/music/see-gojira-debut-rare-studio-performance-global-warming|access-date=2021-06-10|website=Revolver|language=en))</ref>
* [[Melissa Etheridge]]'s "[[I Need to Wake Up]]" (2006), which was the theme song to the film ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]''.<ref name=":0" />
* Climate change is a theme of English rock band [[Radiohead]]'s 2000 song "[[Idioteque]]"<ref name=":0" /> and 2016 album ''[[A Moon Shaped Pool]]''.<ref>((Cite web|last=Kornhaber|first=Spencer|date=2016-05-11|title='A Moon Shaped Pool' Is Radiohead's Breakup With Pop|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/05/radiohead-moon-shaped-pool-review-sculpture-strange-leap/482076/|access-date=2022-02-20|website=The Atlantic|language=en))</ref> Frontman [[Thom Yorke]] has also explored climate change on his solo album ''[[The Eraser]]'' (2006).<ref name=":0" /> 
* [[Thirty Seconds to Mars]]' 2007 single "[[A Beautiful Lie (song)|A Beautiful Lie]]" was released alongside a music video that was filmed in [[Greenland]], and highlights [[Climate change in Greenland|impacts of climate change on the island]]. The band also launched a tie-in website promoting [[individual action on climate change]].<ref>((Cite web |date=2008-02-01 |title=Jared Leto and band film video in the Arctic |url=https://grist.org/article/30-seconds-to-greenland/ |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=Grist |language=en-us))</ref> 
* American rapper [[Pitbull (rapper)|Pitbull]] has released albums titled [[Global Warming (Pitbull album)|''Global Warming'']] (2012) and [[Climate Change (album)|''Climate Change'']] (2017).<ref name=":0" /> 
* Indonesian band [[Kotak (band)|Kotak]] through the 2012 album [[Terbaik]] contains a song called "Hijaukan Bumi", the lyrics and music video contain every cause and impact of climate change.
* "[[Love Song to the Earth]]" was a 2015 charity single produced in the run up to the [[2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference|2015 UN Climate Change Conference]]. [[Paul McCartney]], [[Jon Bon Jovi]], [[Sheryl Crow]] and [[Sean Paul]] all sang on the single.<ref name=":2" /> 
*British musician [[Anohni]]'s 2016 song "[[4 Degrees (song)|4 Degrees]]" discusses climate change and [[Holocene extinction|extinction]].<ref name=":1" /> It references [[Climate model|projected rise]] in global temperature and [[impacts of climate change on biodiversity]] by 2100.<ref>((Cite web|date=2015-12-01|title=Antony Hegarty's 4 Degrees: a climate change anthem for our doomed planet|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/dec/01/antony-hegarty-4-degrees-climate-change-anthem-paris-conference|access-date=2022-02-21|website=the Guardian|language=en))</ref>
*[[OneRepublic]]'s "[[Truth to Power (OneRepublic song)|Truth to Power]]" (2017) which was the theme song to ''[[An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power]]''.<ref name=":0" /> 
*American rapper [[Childish Gambino]]'s "[[Feels Like Summer (Childish Gambino song)|Feels Like Summer]]" (2018).<ref name=":0" /> 
*Singer-songwriter [[Weyes Blood]]'s ''[[Titanic Rising]]'' (2019) features several songs that discuss climate change.<ref name=":1" /> 
* Australian rock band [[King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard]] have released several songs about climate change,<ref>((Cite web|date=2020-12-10|title=King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard warn of impending doom on new single 'If Not Now, Then When?'|url=https://www.nme.com/news/music/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-warn-of-impending-doom-on-new-single-if-not-now-then-when-2836111|access-date=2022-02-19|website=NME|language=en-GB))</ref> and it is a central theme of 2019 album ''[[Infest the Rats' Nest]]'' which follows characters who are forced to [[Space and survival|leave Earth]] to escape climate change impacts.<ref>((Cite web|last=Newstead|first=Al|date=2019-06-21|title=Less than half of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard recorded their new metal album|url=https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/news/musicnews/king-gizzard-lizard-wizard-metal-album-infest-rats-nest-trio/11235206|access-date=2022-02-19|website=triple j|language=en))</ref>
* Composer [[Matthew Burtner]]'s ''Glacier Music'' (2019) is intended as emulating [[Retreat of glaciers since 1850|melting glaciers]].<ref name=":1" />
* [[Lil Dicky]] released charity single "[[Earth (Lil Dicky song)|Earth]]" in 2019, featuring numerous celebrities and other musicians.<ref name=":2" />
* American pop singer [[Billie Eilish]]'s 2019 single "[[All the Good Girls Go to Hell]]" makes reference to [[California wildfires]] and [[sea level rise]].<ref name=":0" />
* English band [[The 1975]]'s [[The 1975 (2019 song)|eponymous 2019 song]] features a spoken word passage by environmental activist [[Greta Thunberg]]. Adapted from her [[Our House Is on Fire (speech)|"Our House Is on Fire" speech]], her passage in the song calls for [[civil disobedience]] to demand [[Climate change mitigation|action on climate change]]. Proceeds from the song were donated to activist group [[Extinction Rebellion]].<ref>((Cite web|date=2019-07-24|title='Time to rebel': Greta Thunberg adds voice to new song by the 1975|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/jul/25/time-to-rebel-greta-thunberg-makes-musical-debut-on-the-1975-track|access-date=2022-02-22|website=the Guardian|language=en))</ref>
*Japanese-British singer [[Rina Sawayama]] has said her 2020 single "[[XS (song)|XS]]" is a [[Criticism of capitalism|critique of capitalism]] in the context of climate change.<ref>((Cite web|last=Hussey|first=Allison|title=Listen to Rina Sawayama's New Song "XS"|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/listen-to-rina-sawayama-new-song-xs/|access-date=2021-06-10|website=Pitchfork|date=2 March 2020|language=en-US))</ref>
* Canadian musician [[Grimes (musician)|Grimes]]'s 2020 album ''[[Miss Anthropocene]]'' is a concept album about an "anthropomorphic goddess of climate change" and [[human extinction]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>((Cite web|date=2019-10-17|title=Grimes' new album 'Miss_Anthropocene': release date, tracklist and everything we know so far|url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/grimes-new-album-miss_anthropocene-release-date-tracklist-everything-know-far-2531642|access-date=2021-06-10|website=NME|language=en-GB))</ref><ref>((Cite web|last=Bloom|first=Madison|title=Grimes Announces New Album Miss_Anthropocene|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/grimes-announces-new-album-miss-anthropocene/|access-date=2021-06-10|website=Pitchfork|date=20 March 2019|language=en-US))</ref>
* The music video for [[Pearl Jam]]'s 2020 single "[[Retrograde (Pearl Jam song)|Retrograde]]" depicts the impacts of climate change, and features climate activist [[Greta Thunberg]].<ref>((Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Jonathan |date=2020-05-14 |title=Pearl Jam Recruits Climate Change Activist Greta Thunberg for Cautionary 'Retrograde' Visual (Watch) |url=https://variety.com/2020/music/news/pearl-jam-greta-thunberg-retrograde-video-watch-1234606458/ |access-date=2022-03-16 |website=Variety |language=en-US))</ref>
* Brazilian metal band [[Sepultura]]'s 2020 song "[[Quadra (album)|Guardians of Earth]]" is about climate change, [[Deforestation in Brazil|deforestation]] and indigenous people in their home country.<ref>((Cite web|date=2020-09-19|title=Sepultura Address Climate Change in Dramatic New Video for "Guardians Of Earth" -|url=https://music.mxdwn.com/2020/09/19/news/sepultura-address-climate-change-in-dramatic-new-video-for-guardians-of-earth/|access-date=2022-02-25|website=mxdwn Music|language=en-US))</ref>
* Trip-hop group [[Massive Attack]] released a song on their 2020 EP [[Eutopia (EP)|''Eutopia'']] that features a speech by [[Christiana Figueres]], the diplomat who wrote the [[Paris Agreement]], urging for action on climate change.<ref>((Cite web|date=2020-07-10|title=Massive Attack Release New Audiovisual EP Eutopia|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/massive-attack-release-new-audiovisual-ep-eutopia-watch/|access-date=2022-02-22|website=Pitchfork|language=en-US))</ref>
* [[Marina Diamandis|Marina]]'s 2021 single "[[Purge the Poison]]"<ref>((Cite web |date=2021-05-14 |title=Purge The Poison - MARINA ((!)) Video of the Week |url=https://www.walesartsreview.org/video-of-the-week-marina-purge-the-poison/ |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=Wales Arts Review |language=en-US))</ref>
* Climate change is a central theme of Australian rock band [[Midnight Oil]]'s final album [[Resist (Midnight Oil album)|''Resist'']] (2022).<ref>((Cite web |date=2022-02-16 |title=Midnight Oil clock off with fitting finale |url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/7623552/midnight-oil-clock-off-with-fitting-finale/ |access-date=2022-03-09 |website=Newcastle Herald |language=en-AU))</ref>
* Greg Barnett's triple album "The Flat White Album" (2020)<ref>((Cite web |title=Greg Barnett – The Flat White Album |url=https://thearkofmusic.com/greg-barnett-the-flat-white-album/ |access-date=2022-07-30 |website=thearkofmusic.com |date=18 October 2021 |language=en-US))</ref> is bookended by two climate related tracks, ''The C-Bomb'' and ''Frogs in a Pan''.

== Theater ==
[[File:Sharon Abreu as Hunter Lovins singing help me lose a bottle of whiskey.jpg|thumb|Still from a 2010 performance of ''[[The Climate Monologues]]''.]]
* ''[[The Contingency Plan]]'' (2009) by [[Steve Waters]] is a diptych of plays first performed at the Bush Theatre in London. They are set in the near future, at a time during which severe tidal surges begin to submerge parts of coastal Britain.
* ''[[The Climate Monologues]]'' (2010).<ref>((Cite web|last=navonm|date=2017-05-30|title=The Climate Monologues ((!)) Peril & Promise ((!)) PBS|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2017/05/the-climate-monologues/|access-date=2022-02-22|website=Peril & Promise|language=en-US))</ref>
* [[The Heretic (play)|''The Heretic'']] (2011)
* [[2071 (play)|''2071'']] (2014) by climate scientist [[Chris Rapley]] and playwright [[Duncan Macmillan (playwright)|Duncan Macmillan]].<ref>((Cite web|date=2014-11-05|title=Climate change play 2071 aims to make data dramatic|url=http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2014/nov/05/climate-change-theatre-2071-katie-mitchell-duncan-macmillan|access-date=2022-02-20|website=the Guardian|language=en))</ref>

==Television==

=== Television documentaries ===
*''[[Years of Living Dangerously]]'', nine-part 2014 Showtime documentary television series

=== Fictional television ===
[[File:Trey Parker & Matt Stone (28480549692).jpg|thumb|[[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]], creators of adult animated comedy series ''[[South Park]]''. ''South Park'' has parodied climate change on several occasions, particularly focusing on the [[Environmental activism of Al Gore|environmental activism of politician Al Gore]].]]
*''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'' had numerous episodes which dealt with global-warming including "Two Futures" Part 1 & 2, "Heat Wave", "Domes of Doom", "The Ark", "Summit to Save Earth" Parts 1 & 2, "Greenhouse Planet", "A Perfect World", and "Planeteers Under Glass"
*[[The World Set Free (Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey)|"The World Set Free" (''Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'')]], 2014 TV series episode
*''[[South Park]]'' spoofed global warming in seven episodes: 
**"[[Spontaneous Combustion (South Park)|Spontaneous Combustion]]", (1999) - [[Randy and Sharon Marsh|Randy Marsh]] wins a [[Nobel Prize]] by discovering that a string of [[spontaneous combustion]]s around South Park was caused by partners refusing to fart in front of each other and solving the crisis by having the town's residents fart every few seconds, only for the resultant [[methane emissions]] to cause global warming and a massive [[heat wave]].
**"[[Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow]]" - Environmentalists host an [[Earth Day]] festival at South Park to raise awareness about global warming, brainwashing its residents into supporting propagandistic slogans using [[Jedi mind trick]]s. The boys struggle to arrange for [[Canada|Canadian]] comedians [[Terrance and Phillip]] to perform at the festival.
**"[[Goobacks]]" (2004) - [[Environmental migrant|Climate refugees]] from the year 3045 begin using a [[time portal]] to travel to Earth in 2004 for work, leading to a controversy mirroring the debate over [[illegal immigration]] as they work for low wages.
**"[[Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow]]", (2005) - [[Stan Marsh]] pretends that a flood caused by him crashing a boat into a [[beaver dam]] was caused by global warming, leading to a panic. The episode was meant to parody the [[Criticism of the government response to Hurricane Katrina|government response]] to [[Hurricane Katrina]], as well as explanations that it was [[Tropical cyclones and climate change|caused by climate change]].
**"[[Smug Alert!]]" (2006) - Drivers of [[Hybrid vehicle|hybrid cars]] cause massive emissions of "smug," causing a superstorm which annihilates [[San Francisco]] and South Park.
**"[[ManBearPig]]" (2006) - [[Al Gore]] visits South Park warning about a giant carnivorous monster known as the ManBearPig and takes the protagonists to search for it in the [[Cave of the Winds (Colorado)|Cave of the Winds]], only for it to become evident that Gore is using the incident to get attention. The episode parodies [[Environmental activism of Al Gore|Gore's climate change activism]] and reflects series co-creators [[Trey Parker]] and [[Matt Stone]]'s [[Climate change denial|climate change skepticism]] at the time of the episode's release.
**"[[Time to Get Cereal]]"/"[[Nobody Got Cereal?]]" (2018) - The ManBearPig proves to have actually been real and begins attacking South Park's residents, some of whom nevertheless remain skeptical of its existence. The boys are forced to apologize to Gore to get him to help, although he remains self-aggrandizing. At the end of the arc the townsfolk finally admit that the ManBearPig was real and begin negotiating for it to leave but are constantly unable to accept the creature's terms for its departure. Parker and Stone wrote the episode as an apology for the show's previous depictions of climate change, and Gore himself praised the episode.<ref>((Cite web|title=South Park issues rare apology for 'ManBearPig'|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-park-issues-rare-apology-manbearpig-skewering-al-gore-n934156|access-date=2021-08-09|website=NBC News|date=8 November 2018 |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web|last=VanDerWerff|first=Emily|date=2018-11-14|title=12 years after mocking Al Gore's fight against climate change, South Park reconsiders|url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/11/14/18080758/south-park-time-to-get-cereal-recap-season-22-al-gore-global-warming-manbearpig|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Vox|language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web|first=Simone|last=Torn|date=2021-04-03|title='South Park' Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker Claim This Episode 'Has Not Aged Well'|url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/south-park-creators-matt-stone-and-trey-parker-claim-this-episode-has-not-aged-well.html/|access-date=2021-08-09|website=Showbiz Cheat Sheet|language=en-US))</ref>
*''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' had several global-warming themed episodes:
** Episode "[[Deja Q]]" (1990) - The crew suggests an artificial amplification of global warming using [[greenhouse gas]]es to counter the cooling effects of dust from the impact of a moon on a planet.
** Episode "[[A Matter of Time (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|A Matter of Time]]" (Season 5 EP 9) - A passing cloud of dust from an asteroid causes global cooling on a planet, the crew of the enterprise use a [[Phaser (fictional weapon)|phaser]] to release frozen deposits of [[carbon dioxide]] on the planet.
** "[[The Inner Light (Star Trek: The Next Generation)|The Inner Light]]" (1992) - [[Jean-Luc Picard]] lives a lifetime on a planet experiencing Global Warming and [[aridification]]. Ultimately, the climate change becomes serious enough to threaten all life on the planet. This [[Hugo Award]] winner is among the 5 most popular out of all 178 episodes in the TNG series.
* The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 TV series)|1987 ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles'' cartoon]] has four episodes dealing with global warming. In "[[Shredder's Mom]]", [[Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)|Shredder]] and [[Krang]] use a mirror fixed to a satellite to warm up the [[Earth]] if the political leaders do not surrender to them. The [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] get help from General Yogure to stop them. In [[Northern Lights Out]], a man named Eric Red in [[Norway]] plans to melt the [[polar ice cap]] and [[flood]] all the coastal [[city|cities]] on the [[Earth]] by blowing up underground volcanoes, which will make it "easy" for Eric Red and his gang to take over the Earth. In "[[A Real Snow Job]]", set in the [[Alps]] in [[Austria]], Krang and Shredder use a ''Zoetropic wave'' device to melt the world's ice, [[flood]]ing the coastal [[city|cities]] and making the Earth easy for Krang and Shredder to take over. In "Too Hot to Handle", Vernon Fenwick's nephew Foster has an invention that brings the Earth closer to the [[Sun]], a "Solar Magnet".
* [[The Transformers (TV series)|The 1980s ''Transformers'' animated series]] had at least one global-warming themed episode: "The Revenge of Bruticus". There, the [[Combaticons]] (a faction of the series' main villains, the [[Decepticon]]s, created by rebel Decepticon [[Starscream (Transformers)|Starscream]]) use the Space Bridge device to hurl Earth toward the [[Sun]], hoping to destroy the Earth and all enemies. The [[Autobot]]s are forced to help the humans endure the heat while putting aside their differences with the Decepticons in a race against time to restore Earth to its natural orbit.
* The TV series ''[[Utopia (UK TV series)|Utopia]]'' (2013-14) is a violent thriller about a fictional [[conspiracy (criminal)|conspiracy]] that has a number of [[Espionage|secret agents]] embedded in key places in government and industry. The conspiracy, known as "The Network", seeks to frighten the populace into taking a [[vaccine]] which will, as a side-effect, cause mass [[infertility]]. Their aim in doing so is to reduce the number of humans on the planet, in order to tackle climate change, resource shortages and other environmental issues.
* ''[[The Simpsons]]'':
**"[[On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister]]" (2005) - [[Springfield Elementary School]] goes on a field trip to the Springfield Glacier, which is almost completely melted because of climate change.
**"[[The Good, the Sad and the Drugly|The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly]]," - (2009) Lisa is assigned to write a report on the year 2059 and becomes depressed after learning about the future effects of climate change, terrifying the class with her reports.
**"[[White Christmas Blues]]", episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' (2013) - Global warming causes no snowfall on [[Christmas]] for the entire United States except in [[Springfield (The Simpsons)|Springfield]], which is cooled by [[smog]] from [[Mr. Burns]]'s [[nuclear power plant]] and the local tire factory
* The science fiction TV drama ''[[Life Force (TV series)|Life Force]]'' (2000) depicts much of Earth flooded by runaway global warming in 2025.<ref name = "The Hill and Beyond" >((cite book |last=McGown |first=Alistair |author-link= |date=2003 |title=The Hill and Beyond: Children's Television Drama - An Encyclopedia  |url=https://archive.org/details/hillbeyondchildr0000mcgo |publisher=BFI |page=266 |isbn=0851708781))</ref> The vast majority of its ecologically-driven plot aspects spring naturally from this situation, such as climate refugees being brutally used for farming slave labour in episode 4 ("Greenhouse Effect"), civilians turning to look for old parts for electricity generators at scrap heaps or local markets using [[Euro]]s and bartering as currency instead of [[pound sterling]] in episode 7 ("Beware of the Dog"), and manipulative sun-worshipping cults luring people in with rare natural ingredients for protective cream in episode 9 ("Siren Song").<ref name = "The Hill and Beyond" ></ref>

*In episode 2, season 1, of the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] series ''[[Loki (TV series)|Loki]]'', "[[The Variant]]" (2021), Earth experiences a series of climate-related [[natural disaster]]s in the mid-21st century implied to have been caused by climate change.<ref>((Cite web|date=2021-06-19|title=How Did 'Loki' Episode 2 Sneak in Terrifying, Prescient Satire About Climate Change?|url=https://collider.com/loki-episode-2-climate-change/|access-date=2021-08-06|website=Collider|language=en-US))</ref> [[Mobius M. Mobius]] mentions that the extinction of the [[swallow]] at that time resulted in [[ecological collapse]]. A variant of [[Loki (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Loki]], [[Sylvie (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Sylvie]], evades the [[Time Variance Authority]] by hiding in the Roxxcart [[Big-box store|superstore]] in [[Alabama]] shortly before its destruction by a [[Tropical cyclone|hurricane]] in 2050, thus preventing any branches of the timeline.
*''[[Doctor Who]]'', "[[Orphan 55]]" (2020) - The [[Thirteenth Doctor]] takes [[Graham O'Brien]], [[Ryan Sinclair]], and [[Yasmin Khan (Doctor Who)|Yasmin Khan]] to a spa in the future which proves to be a trap on the abandoned planet Orphan 55. They later discover it is an abandoned version of Earth wrecked by climate change and nuclear warfare, and inhabited by [[mutant]] humans known as "Dregs." The episode ends with the Doctor telling them that although it is only one possible future she cannot guarantee it will not come to pass.((Citation needed|date=September 2022))
*The first ever [[Crossover episode|crossover episodes]] of rival British [[Soap opera|soap operas]] [[Casualty (TV series)|''Casualty'']], ''[[Coronation Street]]'', [[Doctors (2000 TV series)|''Doctors'']], ''[[EastEnders]]'', ''[[Emmerdale]]'', ''[[Holby City]]'' and ''[[Hollyoaks]]'' aired in 2021, which all featured references to climate change in the lead up to the [[2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference]].<ref>((Cite web |title=Hollyoaks, Coronation Street, EastEnders and Emmerdale among soaps taking part in first crossover episodes to highlight climate change |url=https://news.sky.com/story/hollyoaks-coronation-street-eastenders-and-emmerdale-among-soaps-taking-part-in-tv-first-crossover-episodes-to-highlight-climate-change-12432112 |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=Sky News |language=en))</ref><ref>((Cite web |title=British Soaps And Continuing Drama Join Forces To Highlight Climate Change |url=https://www.itv.com/coronationstreet/articles/british-soaps-and-continuing-drama-join-forces-to-highlight-climate-change |access-date=2022-09-02 |website=ITV |language=en))</ref>

=== Late-night television ===

* On September 22, 2021, a group of American late-night television hosts—[[Samantha Bee]], [[Trevor Noah]], [[Jimmy Kimmel]], [[Seth Meyers]], [[James Corden]], [[Stephen Colbert]], and [[Jimmy Fallon]]—devoted portions of their respective shows to climate change-related material.<ref>((Cite news |last=Sullivan |first=Margaret |date=2021-09-21 |title=Perspective ((!)) A new media strategy for selling the seriousness of the climate crisis: Humor |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/comedians-climate-crisis/2021/09/21/91901dec-1ae4-11ec-bcb8-0cb135811007_story.html |access-date=2023-06-17 |issn=0190-8286))</ref>

==Comic books==
*''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures]]'' from [[Archie Comics]]. Mostly set in their present (late 1980s and early 1990s), but also including time travels to a future, in which [[New York City]] is flooded because of [[global warming]] and the [[greenhouse effect]].

== Video games ==
((See also|List of climate change video games))
*''[[Civilization (video game)|Civilization]]'' (1991) is a strategy game in which the pollution created by industrial production and transportation, if left unchecked, leads to [[desertification]] and coastal regions becoming swamps.<ref>((Cite web|last1=Wright|first1=Steven T.|title=From Zelda to Civ to Frostpunk—can climate change be fun?|url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/06/from-zelda-to-civ-to-frostpunk-can-climate-change-be-fun/|access-date=2022-07-18|website=ArsTechnica|date=5 June 2020 |language=en-US))</ref>
*''[[Fuel (2009 video game)|Fuel]]'' (2009) is a racing video game set in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by [[extreme weather]] fueled by global warming.
* In 2008, the [[Tamagotchi|TamaTown]] website featured a game that taught children how to prevent global warming.
*''[[Civilization VI: Gathering Storm]]'' (2019) includes a mechanic where [[Greenhouse gas emissions|carbon emissions]] lead to [[sea level rise]], permanent coastal flooding and an increase in the intensity and frequency of [[Tropical cyclones and climate change|extreme weather events]].<ref>((Cite web|last1=Honeybun-Arnolda|first1=Elliot|last2=Obermeister|first2=Noam|title=Civilization VI: Gathering Storm shows video games can make us think seriously about climate change|url=http://theconversation.com/civilization-vi-gathering-storm-shows-video-games-can-make-us-think-seriously-about-climate-change-111791|access-date=2022-02-22|website=The Conversation|date=15 February 2019 |language=en))</ref>
*''[[Battlefield 2042]]'' (2021) is set in 2041 where a [[World war 3|global military conflict]] is driven by the exacerbation of tensions from [[resource depletion]] and [[Physical impacts of climate change|extreme weather caused by climate change]].<ref>((Cite web|title=Battlefield 2042 Imagines A Huge Multiplayer Hellscape Of Climate Change|url=https://www.gamespot.com/articles/battlefield-2042-imagines-a-huge-multiplayer-hellscape-of-climate-change/1100-6492557/|access-date=2021-06-10|website=GameSpot|language=en-US))</ref> A [[Refugee crisis|massive influx]] of [[Environmental migrant|climate refugees]] and [[category 6 hurricane]]s lead to an [[economic depression]] in 2034 and the dissolution of the [[European Union]] following the collapse of [[Germany]] in 2035. Although technological development causes human society to begin to recover in 2037, a [[Kessler syndrome]] event destroying 70 percent of Earth's satellites pushes the world into war between [[Statelessness|stateless]] [[Proxy war|proxies]] fighting for the [[United States]] and [[Russia]].

== Stand-up comedy ==

* Comedians including [[Michelle Wolf]], [[Nate Bargatze]], and [[Joel Kim Booster]] have made jokes related to climate change.<ref name=":8">((Cite news |date=2023-01-05 |title=Comedians made some hilarious jokes about climate change. Were they right? |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/05/comedy-climate-change-jokes/ |access-date=2023-06-17 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en))</ref>

== Other ==

* [[Climate fiction]] is a popular media genre which frequently features stories of ''climate apocalypse''. Examples include ''[[Ishmael (Quinn novel)|Ishmael]]'', a 1992 [[Philosophical fiction|philosophical novel]],<ref name="Veldman 2012">((cite journal |last1=Veldman |first1=Robin Globus |date=2012 |title=Narrating the Environmental Apocalypse: How Imagining the End Facilitates Moral Reasoning Among Environmental Activists |journal=Ethics and the Environment |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=1–23 |doi=10.2979/ethicsenviro.17.1.1 |jstor=10.2979/ethicsenviro.17.1.1 |s2cid=143291219))</ref> and ''[[Mad Max: Fury Road]]'', a 2015 [[action film]].<ref>((cite web |last1=Goldfarb |first1=Ben |date=3 June 2015 |title=I have seen the future, and it looks like Mad Max |url=https://www.hcn.org/articles/i-have-seen-the-future-and-it-looks-like-mad-max |website=[[High Country News]] |language=en-us))</ref>
* Concern over a ''climate apocalypse'' has been the subject of [[satirical]] news articles. One theme is popular revolt against power brokers. Another are fantasies about the romance and adventure of people experiencing the chaos of ecological and societal collapse.<ref>((cite web |last1=Tumino |first1=Adam |date=24 September 2019 |title=Opinion, Satire: Embrace the climate change apocalypse |url=https://www.dailyeasternnews.com/2019/09/24/opinion-satire-embrace-the-climate-change-apocalypse/ |website=[[The Daily Eastern News]]))</ref><ref>((cite web |last1=Montgomery |first1=Scott |date=29 September 2015 |title=4 fun ways to describe the looming climate apocalypse |url=https://www.cbc.ca/comedy/funnystuff/4-fun-ways-to-describe-the-looming-climate-apocalypse-1.3623951 |website=[[CBC.ca]] |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation]]))</ref>

* ''[[What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?]]'', a 2009 satirical cartoon by [[Joel Pett]]
* [[Keep Cool (board game)|''Keep Cool'']], a board game
* [[Mothers of Invention (podcast)|''Mothers of Invention'']], a feminist podcast

==See also==
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* [[Climate change art]]
* [[Catastrophes in popular culture]]
* [[Climate fiction]]
* [[Media coverage of climate change]]
*[[Climate communication]]

== Footnotes ==
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==References==
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