Your Free ClimateNotebooks Starter Pack
Eight complete, free NotebookLM notebooks -- plus our guide to getting the most out of them. No trial limits, no credit card. Just start exploring.
THE CLIMATOGRAPHERS -- FREE RESOURCES
Includes our free ebook on NotebookLM and climate knowledge
These notebooks are free because we want you to experience the full potential of what curated NotebookLM notebooks can do -- and because we believe this content should be as widely accessible as possible.
Climate change is a global problem. Understanding it shouldn't have a price barrier.
STARTER PACK NOTEBOOKS
Eight complete notebooks, free to explore
Each of these notebooks is a complete, fully built resource -- not a preview or a teaser. They are free because the topics in them belong in the public conversation, and because they show you exactly what the ClimateNotebooks format can do.
Start Here: The ClimateNotebooks Guide to NotebookLM
Before you dive into the notebooks, our free ebook explains how NotebookLM works, why curated notebooks produce better answers than general purpose AI, and how to ask questions that get the most out of each notebook. It also explains the full ClimateNotebooks collection -- and how the free, library, and business intelligence tiers relate to each other.
The AMOC Notebook
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation: Science, Risk & Uncertainty
The Gulf Stream system -- one of earth's most important climate regulators -- is slowing. This notebook assembles ~100 scientific sources, including primary literature and expert scientific discussions, to give you an honest account of what the evidence shows and what remains genuinely uncertain.
Sample questions to ask:
"Is the AMOC actually slowing down, and how confident are scientists?"
"What would happen to Europe's climate if the AMOC significantly weakened?"
"Why do some scientists worry about a tipping point while others say don't panic?"
CLIMATE SCIENCE
WEF Global Risks Report Notebook
What the Reports Find and What They Actually Mean
The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Reports are cited in board presentations and regulatory filings worldwide. This notebook helps you understand not just what they say, but how they are produced and how much weight their finding should carry, including the critical literature that rarely makes it into press coverage.
Sample questions to ask:
"What should I know before citing a WEF finding in a board presentations?"
"How has climate risk been treated in the WEF reports over the past decade?"
"Why do risk rankings shift so dramatically from year to year?"
BUSINESS RISK
The SB 261 Filings Notebook
California Climate Risk Disclosures: What Companies Actually Said
When California's climate disclosure deadline arrived (and then was stayed by a federal court), approximately 100 large companies filed voluntarily anyway. This notebook is built entirely from those documents: a unique set of corporate climate risk disclosures analyzed for patterns, gaps, and what they reveal about how companies actually think about climate risk.
Sample questions to ask:
"What language appears so consistently it seems template-driven?"
"How do technology companies approach disclosure differently from industrial manufacturers?"
"Which risk categories are treated substantively, and which only nominally?"
BUSINESS RISK
Playing Climate Chess: 2025-2026
The Quarterly Scorecard for the Climate Game
Who is winning the climate game right now, and why? This living notebook tracks the strategic conflict between Team Urgency and Team No Urgency across legislation, public opinion, clean technology, misinformation, corporate action, and more. Updated quarterly as 2026 unfolds.
Sample questions to ask:
"Give me an overall assessment of how climate chess went in 2025."
"What were Team No Urgency's most effective moves last year?"
"Where is Team Urgency gaining ground, if anywhere?"
STRATEGY
Can Team Urgency Win the Climate Chess Game?
The Framework: History, Strategy, and What It Would Take
Who is winning the climate game right now, and why? This living notebook tracks the strategic conflict between Team Urgency and Team No Urgency across legislation, public opinion, clean technology, misinformation, corporate action, and more. Updated quarterly as 2026 unfolds.
Sample questions to ask:
"How did Team No Urgency build such an effective strategic operation?"
"What are Team Urgency's most persistent strategic failures?"
"What would it actually take for the climate game outcome to change?"
STRATEGY
The Abundance Agenda Notebook
The Most Contested Word in American Politics, Mapped and Explained
"Abundance" is being invoked by democratic socialists and libertarians, climate advocates and fossil fuel skeptics alike -- but the word means radically different things depending on who is using it. This notebook maps the full terrain of the Abundance Agenda: its factions, its strongest arguments for and against, and what it means for climate change. Deliberately agnostic, every faction in its strongest form.
Sample questions to ask:
"What are the six ideological varieties of the Abundance Agenda?"
"Is the abundance movement good or bad for climate? What does each side argue?"
"What is "Dark Abundance" and why is it fracturing the coalition?"
POLICY
The Ultimate Climate Library
200+ Climate Books, Personally Read and Summarized
More than 200 serious climate books are in this Notebook, spanning science, energy, economics, psychology, justice, politics, and more. Each has been personally read and summarized by the Climatographers. Ask the Notebook AI for a reading recommendation, explore what the collection says about any climate topic, or map the intellectual debates between authors. Your guide to the entire climate literature!
Sample questions to ask:
"I'm new to climate change; where should I start?"
"What do the books in this collection say about carbon offsets?"
"Which authors disagree most sharply on nuclear energy, and why?"
CLIMATE LIBRARY
ClimateNotebooks User Guide
Get More Out of Every Notebook
Tips and techniques for working with NotebookLM effectively: how to frame questions, how to explore topics progressively, how to use the Studio features to generate audio overviews and briefings, and how to navigate the ClimateNotebooks collection. A good first step if you're new to the format.
Sample questions to ask:
"How do I get a podcast-style overview of a notebook topic?"
"What's the best way to explore a topic I don't know much about yet?"
"Can I interact with these notebooks in languages other than English?"
GETTING STARTED
Available in 80+ languages. The sources in these notebooks are primarily in English, but you can interact with any notebooks in your own language. Ask questions, get answers, generate audio previews in more than 80 languages!
Climate change is a global problem, and these resources are designed for a global audience.
English / Español / Français / Deutsch / 中文 (简体) / 日本語 / Português / العربية / हिन्दी / Русский / and 70+ more
READY TO GO DEEPER?
Explore the full ClimateNotebooks collection
The Starter Pack gives you a complete introduction to what these notebooks can do. When you're ready for more, two subscription collections take you further, at prices designed to make expert climate intelligence genuinely accessible.
Climate Library Collection
30+ curated topic notebooks covering the full landscape of climate knowledge, from tipping points and electrification to climate psychology, litigation, carbon offsets, nature-based solutions, and more. Built from the Climatographers' 20+ years of knowledge curation.
➜ 30+ topical climate library notebooks
➜ The Ultimate Climate Library
➜ New notebooks added regularly
➜ Access in 80+ languages
$9.99
/ month
Business Intelligence Collection
310+ professional-grade intelligence notebooks covering the business-material climate topics every decision-maker needs to track: disclosure obligations, litigation, attribution science, carbon markets, insurance, electrification, and more. Constantly updated. Includes the full Climate Library collection.
➜ 30+ topical climate library notebooks
➜ The Ultimate Climate Library
➜ New notebooks added regularly
➜ Access in 80+ languages
$39.99
/ month
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