Books of Interest

General/Introduction:

• Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future – John Cox
• Communicating on Climate Change – An Essential Resource for Journalists, Scientists, and Educators – Bud Ward
• The Discovery of Global Warming – Spencer Weart
• Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley – Stephan Faris
• Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change – Elizabeth Kolbert
• The Rough Guide to Climate Change – Robert Henson
• Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet – Mark Lynas
• The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate – Andrew Dessler and Edward Parson
• The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth – Tim Flannery [I debated whether or not to include this. Flannery seems to me to be a bit of what the anti-AGW proponents call an "alarmist". However, as long as one keeps in mind that he leans towards the extreme end of things, there's no reason why his book can't serve as a jump off point for further reading.]
• What We Know About Climate Change – Kerry Emanuel
• The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations – Eugene Linden
• With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change – Fred Pearce

Paleoclimate/Climate-related:

• Divine Wind: The History and Science of Hurricanes – Kerry Emanuel
• Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations – Brian Fagan
• Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages -  Doug Macdougall
• The Great Ice Age: Climate Change and Life – J. A. Chapman
• The Great Maya Droughts: Water, Life, and Death – Richardson B. Gill
• The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations – Brian Fagan
• The Holocene: An Environmental History – Neil Roberts
• Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery – John Imbrie
• Ice, Mud and Blood: Lessons from Climates Past – Chris Turney
• The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850 – Brian Fagan
• The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization – Brian Fagan
• Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate – William Ruddiman
• Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountains – Mark Bowen
• The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – Richard Alley

Policy/Politics/PR:

• Big Coal: The Dirty Secret Behind America’s Energy Future – Jeff Goodell
• Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis – And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Ross Gelbspan
• Censoring Science: Inside the Political Attack on Dr. James Hansen and the Truth of Global Warming – Mark Bowen
• Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming – James Hoggan
• Earth: The Sequel: The Race to Reinvent Energy and Stop Global Warming – Fred Krupp and Miriam Horn
• Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning – George Monbiot
• The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription – Ross Gelbspan
• Hell and High Water: Global Warming – the Solution and the Politics and What We Should Do – Joseph Romm
• Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment – James Gustave Speth
• The Republican War on Science – Chris Mooney
• Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming – Chris Mooney

RealClimate Authors:

• Climate Change: Picturing the science – Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe
• Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming – Michael Mann and Lee Kump
• Global warming: Understanding the Forecast – David Archer
• Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary – Ray Bradley
• Solar Activity and Earth’s Climate – Rasmus Benestad
• The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate – David Archer

Upcoming

• Understanding Climate Change: The Unofficial Guide to the IPCC Fourth Scientific Assessment – David Archer and Stefan Rahmstorf [?]
• Principles of Planetary Climate – Ray Pierrehumbert [2010]