The best books, articles and online resources about Global Warming?

Question

Which books should I buy?
What are the best articles to read?
What are the best online resources or sites?

Answer 1

Note that all the stuff below has copious references to other sources, so there's a lot here.

This site, above all. Comprehensive, objective.

http://profend.com/global-warming/

This article (It has 26 subarticles)

http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn11462

This book:

The Weather Makers : How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth
by Tim Flannery

http://www.amazon.com/Weather-Makers-Changing-Climate-Means/dp/0871139359/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-9553962-8584109?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191559309&sr=8-1

93 customer reviews, 4-1/2 stars of 5

Other good websites:

http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science/
http://www.realclimate.org
"climate science from climate scientists"

This is the best. You won't read it all, but pick one chapter and read that. The quality of the work is obvious.

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html

Answer 2

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Book, article & website recommendations will be either pro or con depending on the bias of the one answering.

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Internet search on "global warming" then any topic of interest from that search. Evaluate scientific rigor of site by their handling of subject matter. "Science" requires examining both supporting and refuting data. If site only tells why their side is right, or other side is wrong, or ridicules authors ignore their stuff.

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Blogs, reader comments, Yahoo! Answers, etc, do not provide real information. Avoid news media for same reason. You may get a source reference, though. Seek the source, not the editorial comment.

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EVERYONE LIES! Even the most respected sources have their own agendas. Be critical of absolutely everything.

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Don't buy books. Go to the library.

Answer 3

The best book I've read on the issue is Joseph Romm's 'Hell and High Water'. Another very good one is George Monbiot's 'Heat'. Both books discuss what we can do to reduce our impact on the climate, rather than discussing the science proving anthropogenic global warming (they accept the consensus and go from there).

Some good articles:

http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/prrl0319.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6290228.stm
http://www.meatout.org/materials/AKUNReport.pdf

The best online resource is the IPCC report:

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/wg1-report.html

Also useful are these sites which debunk global warming myths:

http://gristmill.grist.org/skeptics
http://green.yahoo.com/blog/climate411/23/part-5-of-5-the-only-explanation-left.html

Answer 4

Definitely buy an Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore.

Watch the video on YouTube, search on youtube polar bears global warming, it is a cartoon. Can't find the link right now, YouTube search is down. Watch YouTube videos on global warming, they give a nice wide view from a whole range of people very good if you are serious about this subjet to understand what every thinks.

Thanks

Beau

Answer 5

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