Books of Interest

General/Introduction:

• Climate Change: Picturing the science – Gavin Schmidt and Joshua Wolfe
• Climate Crash: Abrupt Climate Change And What It Means For Our Future – John Cox
• The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change – David Archer and Stefan Rahmstorf
• A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions – Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley
• Communicating on Climate Change – An Essential Resource for Journalists, Scientists, and Educators – Bud Ward
• Dire Predictions: Understanding Global Warming – Michael Mann and Lee Kump
• 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
• Global warming: Understanding the Forecast – David Archer
• The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate – David Archer
• Principles of Planetary Climate – Ray Pierrehumbert
• The Rough Guide to Climate Change – Robert Henson
• The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate – Andrew Dessler and Edward Parson
• 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:

• The Complete Ice Age: How Climate Change Shaped the World – Brian Fagan (ed.)
• 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
• Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary – Ray Bradley
• Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate – William Ruddiman
• The Rising Sea – Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young
• Solar Activity and Earth’s Climate – Rasmus Benestad
• Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It – Gabrielle Walker
• Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountains – Mark Bowen
• The Tree Rings’ Tale: Understanding Our Changing Climate – John Fleck
• The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future – Richard Alley
• Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future – Peter Ward
• The Wave: In the Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean – Susan Casey

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
• The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth – Eric Pooley
• 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
• Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming – Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway
• Not a Conspiracy Theory: How Business Propaganda Hijacks Democracy – Donald Gutstein
• Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis – Al Gore
• Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment – James Gustave Speth
• The Republican War on Science – Chris Mooney
• Science as a Contact Sport: Inside the Battle to Save Earth’s Climate – Stephen Schneider
• Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming – Chris Mooney
• Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our Last Chance to Save Humanity – James Hansen
• Straight Up: America’s Fiercest Climate Blogger Takes on the Status Quo Media, Politicians, and Clean Energy Solutions – Joe Romm