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• Climate change science : An analysis of some key questions. Committee on the Science of Climate Change, Division of Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council. (2001) (Also available online)
  
  This study originated with a White House request to the National Academies to help inform the administration's ongoing review of U.S. climate change policy. The report provides an overview of what science could say at the time about the potential for future climate change, while outlining the uncertainties that remained. Specific questions were addressed, such as: What is the range of natural variability in climate? Is climate change occurring? How much will temperatures change over the next 100 years?
  
  
• Climate change : What it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren. DiMento, Joseph F.C. and Pamela Doughman, eds. (2007)
  
  Explains the scientific knowledge about global climate change in nontechnical language, describing how it will affect all of us, and how government, business, and citizens can take action against it. The book explains the nuts and bolts of climate and the greenhouse effect and describes their interaction. It discusses the nature of consensus in science and the consensus on climate change in particular.
  
  
• The discovery of global warming. Weart, Spencer R. (2008)
  
  In 2001, a panel representing the world's governments and climate scientists reached a consensus: the world was warming at a rate without precedent, and it was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. This heavily referenced book relates how scientists reached their conclusion, discusses the history of global warming, and analyzes the nature of modern scientific work as it confronts difficult questions about the Earth's future.
  
  
• Global warming : A very short introduction. Maslin, Mark. (2009)
  
  Discusses the predicted impacts of global warming and the possible surprises that could be waiting for us in the near future. It draws on material from the report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a huge collaborative study drawing together current thinking on the subject from experts in a range of disciplines, and presents the findings of the Panel for a general readership. The book also discusses the politics of global warming and what we can do now to adapt to climate change and mitigate its worst effects.
  
  
• The global warming desk reference. Johansen, Bruce E. (2002)
  
  Synthesizes scientific research beginning in the 1980s and the public debate that raged through the 1990s. Includes such topics as the general consensus on global warming, skeptics, ice melt, warming seas, flora and fauna, human health, indigenous peoples, projections for the year 2100, and possible solutions.
  
  
• Global warming : Opposing viewpoints. Roleff, Tamara L., ed. (1997)
  
  Explores the controversy of global warming with essays that discuss opposing viewpoints on many aspects of the issue. Included essays: Human activities cause global warming / Natural factors cause global warming; The effect of global warming will be detrimental / The effect of global warming will be beneficial; The theory of global warming is scientifically credible / The theory of global warming is not scientifically credible.
  
  
• Global warming : The science of climate change. Drake, Frances. (2000)
  
  Aimed at general readers with an intermediate background in science. Includes basic atmospheric science, an explanation of climate, Earth's past climate, evidence for global warming, impacts of global warming, and mitigation options.
  
  
• Global warming : Understanding the forecast. Archer, David. (2007)
  
  Written for an undergraduate, non-science audience, this book introduces the issues involved with assessing the risk of climate change. The focus is on explaining the science required for understanding the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle, but social and economic issues are also addressed in the conclusion. The companion website provides interactive computer models of the physics and chemistry behind the global warming forecast.
  
  
• An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it. Gore, Albert. (2006)
  
  Published to tie in to a documentary film of the same name, this heavily illustrated book is Gore's battle cry about what needs to be done about global warming.
  
  
• Is global warming a threat? Williams, Mary E., ed. (2003)
  
  While scientists and environmentalists agree that global warming is occurring, some researchers dispute the claim that it will cause catastrophic changes. Contributors debate whether recent global warming is driven by human industrial activities and whether rising temperatures threaten the world's environment, economy, and health.
  
  
• The rough guide to climate change. Henson, Robert. (2008)
  
  Aims to give a complete picture, featuring both scientific research and political debate. Lays out the facts and assesses the options - global and personal - for dealing with the threat of a warming world. The author looks at the evolution of our atmosphere over the last 4.5 billion years and what computer simulations of climate change reveal about our past, present, and future. Included is information from the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and an updated politics section to reflect post-Kyoto developments.
  
  
• The weather makers : How man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth. Flannery, Tim. (2005)
  
  Warning that climate change is fast becoming an issue that "will dwarf all others combined," Flannery summarizes the scientific evidence regarding climate change for a general audience. He has sought to be comprehensive in coverage, discussing the role of climate change in the evolution of the earth, the natural and anthropogenic driving factors of climate change, the range of environmental effects thought to be connected to the phenomena, global models and predictions, and technology- and policy-based solutions.