Bestselling green books of the decade: part two

I blogged a couple of weeks ago about the UK's bestselling green books of 2010 the last decade, based on Nielsen bookscan data, which had James Lovelock, Tim Smit, Christopher Booker and Al Gore dominating the list. I have now got a different take from Amazon, who define their environment and ecology category a little differently. It includes some different names but still has plenty of books by climate sceptics. Here are the lists, first for the last decade: Amazon UK's top 10 environment & ecology books 2000-10: 1. Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before Alastair Fothergill 2. British Isles: A Natural History Alan Titchmarsh 3. Life Michael Gunton and Martha Holmes 4. The Real Global Warming Disaster Christopher Booker and Richard North 5. The Revenge of Gaia James Lovelock 6. It's Not Easy Being Green Dick Strawbridge 7. An Inconvenient Truth Al Gore 8. Planet Earth: The Photographs Alastair Fothergill 9. An Appeal to Reason Nigel Lawson 10. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive Jared Diamond It's basically a BBC whitewash, with numbers one, two, three, six and eight all BBC books to accompany high-profile television series. Nigel Lawson's sceptical book makes an appearance at nine. Now, for this year's list: Amazon UK's top 10 environment & ecology books for 2010: 1. How Bad Are Bananas?: The carbon footprint of everything Mike Berners-Lee 2. The Hockey Stick Illusion A. W. Montford 3. The Real Global Warming Disaster Christopher Booker and Richard North 4. Cradle to Cradle Michael Braungart 5. Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth James Lovelock 6. Born Wild: One Man's Passion for Lions Tony Fitzjohn 7. The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living Mark Boyle 8. Small Is Beautiful E.F. Schumacher 9. Silent Spring Rachel Carson 10. When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts Three have Guardian connections: we are partly serialising How Bad Are Bananas . We were the first to write about the Moneyless Man (if you're wondering, he's giving the sales money away) and the book by our Asia environment correspondent, Jonathan Watts , is at 10. The classics at four, eight and nine show their enduring appeal. Overall I am struck by how well the sceptic books sell, given that their premise is a fringe one: every nation on Earth just signed up to doing something to tackle climate change in Cancún . Are conspiracy tales simply a more gripping read?