Science writer Lydia Dotto has been covering climate change for more than 30 years. She is the author of several books on climate and related issues, including:
	•	Storm Warning: Gambling with the Climate of Our Planet
	•	Ethical Choices and Global Greenhouse Warming
	•	Thinking the Unthinkable: The Social Consequences of Rapid Climate Change
	•	Planet Earth in Jeopardy: The Environmental Consequences of Nuclear War
	•	The Ozone War

As the science writer for the Globe and Mail in the 1970s, she wrote a series of articles on weather and climate that received an award from the Canadian Meteorological Society.

Dotto has won numerous awards from the Canadian Science Writers Association and in 1983 was awarded the Royal Canadian Institute’s Sandford Fleming Medal for outstanding achievement in promoting understanding of science among the Canadian public.