Global Warming & Climate Change

Here's a list of recent books about global warming, climate change, and climate science. Some good titles to start with include:

Field notes from a catastrophe : man, nature, and climate change by Elizabeth Kolbert

Inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it by Al Gore

Additional titles for further reading:

Discovery of global warming by Spencer R. Weart

Plows, plagues, and petroleum : how humans took control of climate by William H. Ruddiman

Thin ice : unlocking the secrets of climate in the world's highest mountains by Mark Bowen

Weather makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth by Tim Flannery

Wiinds of change : climate, weather, and the destruction of civilizations by Eugene Linden

For a summary of global warming and a review of some of the books listed above, see:

Threat to the Planet by Jim Hansen

- found in The New York Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 12, July 13, 2006