Global Climate Change
Recommended Reading List

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For the General Public:
Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change
and What it Means for Our Future
By John D. Cox (Joseph Henry Press, 2005)
The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change:
A Guide to the Debate
By Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)
The Heat Is On
By Emma Duncan
(The Economist, September 7, 2006)
Article online at www.economist.com/surveys/displayStory.cfm?story_id=7852924
The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate
and What it Means for Life on Earth
By Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006)
An Inconvenient Truth
By Al Gore (Rodale Press, 2006)
The Earth Remains Forever:
Generations at a Crossroads
By Robert Jackson (University of Texas Press, 2002)
Field Notes from a Catastrophe:
Man, Nature, and Climate Change
By Elizabeth Kolbert (Bloomsbury Press, 2006)
The Winds of Change:
Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations
By Eugene Linden (Simon and Schuster, 2006)
The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth
Is Fighting Back - and How We Can Still Save Humanity
By James E. Lovelock (Allen Lane, 2006)
Uncertain Science ... Uncertain World
By Henry N. Pollack (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
The Perfect Storm
By Sebastian Junger (W. W. Norton, 1997)
Isaac's Storm
By Erik Larson (Vintage Books, 2000)
Technical Publications:
Meteorology Today:
An Introduction to Weather, Climate, and the Environment
By C. Donald Ahrens (Brookes Cole, 2002)
Warming the World:
Economic Models of Global Warming
By William D. Nordhaus and Joseph Boyer (MIT Press, 2000)
Free download online at
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~nordhaus/homepage/web table of contents 102599.htm
Under the Weather:
Climate, Ecosystems, and Infectious Disease
National Research Council (National Academies Press, 2001)
Advanced Technology Paths to Global Climate Stability:
Energy for a Greenhouse Planet
By Martin I. Hoffert, et al (Science Magazine, Vol. 298, November 2002)
Article online at http://www.sciencemag.org,
then search under Magazine by putting in the vol#
Climate Change 2001:
The IPCC Third Assessment Report
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Free download online at: www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar
Global Climate Change Linkages:
Acid Rain, Air Quality, and Stratospheric Ozone
By James C. White, William R. Wagner, and Carole N. Beal
(Conference Proceedings, 1999)
Surface Temperature Reconstructions
for the Last 2,000 Years
National Research Council (National Academies Press, 2006)
Abrupt Climate Change:
Inevitable Surprises
National Research Council and Ocean Studies Board
(National Academy Press, 2002)
Climate Change Science:
An Analysis of Some Key Questions
National Research Council (National Academies Press, 2001)
Understanding Climate Change Feedbacks
National Research Council (National Academies Press, 2003)
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