Part 1: Overview of global warming

Compiled by Caroline Davidson, 14 February 2007 (updated Jan 2013).

Climate change in the past

• Katharine Anderson. Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology, University of Chicago Press, 0226019683
• Richard B. Alley. The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change and Our Future, Princeton University Press, 2005, 0691102961
• Arnd Bernaerts. Climate Change and Naval War: A Scientific Assessment, Trafford Publishing, 2006, 141204846X
• Edmund Blair Bolles. The Ice Finders: How a Poet, a Professor and a Politician Discovered the Ice Age, Counterpoint, 2000, 1582431019
• Mark Bowen. Thin Ice: Unlocking the Secrets of Climate in the World’s Highest Mountains, Henry Holt, New York, 2005, 0805081356
• Raymond S. Bradley. Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, Academic Press, 2nd 1999, 012124010X
• Neville Brown. History and Climate Change – a Eurocentric Perspective, Routledge, 2001, 0415019591
• William James Burroughs. Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 0521824095
• William H. Calvin. A Brain for All Seasons: Human Evolution and Abrupt Climate Change, University of Chicago Press, new ed. 2003, 0226092038
• Basil Cracknell. Outrageous Waves: Global Warming and Coastal Change in Britain Through Two Thousand Years, Phillimore & Co Ltd, 2005, 1860773443
• William Cronon. Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England, Hill and Wang, US, 20th anniversary edition, 2003, 0809016346
• William Cronon. Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West, W. W. Norton and Company, reprint edition, 1992, 0393308731
• Brian Fagan. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization, Granta Books, 2005 (new ed.), 1862077517
• Brian Fagan. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850, Basic Books, 2002, 0465022723
• Brian Fagan. Floods, Famines and Emperors: and the Fate of Civilisations, Basic Books, 1999, 0465011217
• Brian Fagan. The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. Bloomsbury, 2008, 9781596913929
• Tim Flannery. The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change, Penguin, Allen Lane, 2005, 0713999217
• James Rodger Fleming. Historical Perspectives on Climate Change, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0195189736
• J. Donal Hughes. The Environmental History of the World (Routledge Studies in Physical Geography and Environment), Routledge, 2001, 0415136199
• Eugene Linden. The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations, Simon & Schuster, 2006, 0684863537
• J.R. McNeill. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth- Century World, W.W. Norton, 2001, 0140295097
• Mark Monmonier. Air Apparent: How Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict and Dramatize Weather, University of Chicago Press, new edition, 2000, 0226534235
• William F. Ruddiman. Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate, Princeton University Press, 2005, 0691121648
• Chris Stringer. Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain. Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2006, 0141018135
• R.C.L. Wilson, S.A. Drury, J. L. Chapman (author-editors). The Great Ice Age: Climate Change and Life, Routledge, 1999, 0415198429
• Ron Redfern. Origins: the evolution of continents, oceans and life, Cassell, 2000, 0304354031
• Elisabeth T. Crawford. Arrhenius: From Ionic Theory to the Greenhouse Effect, Science History Publications, 1996, 9780881351668 (hbk)
• Tim Flannery. We Are the Weather Makers: The Story of Global Warming, The Text Publishing Company, Australia, 2006, 9780141034072
• James R. Fleming. The Calendar Effect, Royal Meteorological Society, 2006, 9781878220769
• Jonathan Cowie. Climate Change: Biological and Human Aspects, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 9780521696197

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Contemporary global warming: evidence, methodologies and modelling and monitoring

• William James Burroughs. Climate Change: A Multidisciplinary Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 0521567718
• Carolyn Fry. The Impact of Climate Change: The World’s Greatest Challenge in the Twenty-First Century, New Holland, 2008, 9781847731166
• Alan Gilpin. Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA): Cutting Edge Impact for the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 0521429676
• Robert J. Gurney, James L. Foster, Claire L. Parkinson (eds.) Atlas of Satellite Observations Related to Global Change, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 052143467X
• Dwayne Heard. Analytical Techniques for Atmospheric Measurement, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2006, 1405123575
• Robert Henson. The Rough Guide to Climate Change. The Symptoms. The Science. The Solutions, Rough Guides, 2006, 1843537117
• John Houghton. Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, Cambridge University Press; 3rd revised edition 2004, 0521528747
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), J.T. Houghton, B.A. Callander, S.K. Varney (eds). Climate Change 1992: The Supplementary Report to the IPCC Scientific Assessment, Cambridge University Press, 1992, 0521438292
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I. Climate Change 1995: The science of climate change: contribution of Working Group 1 to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Cambridge University Press, 1996, 0521564360
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), IPCC Second Assessment: Climate Change 1995, Diane Publishing Co. 1995, OOP.
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group II, Robert T Watson et al. (eds). Climate Change 1995: Impacts, adaptations and mitigation of Climate Change: scientific-technical analyses: contribution of Working Group II to the Second Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Cambridge University Press, 1996, 0521564379, OOP. Approx
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Y. Ding, D. J. Griggs, M. Noguer (eds). Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis: Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 0521014956, OOP
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), J.J. McCarthy, O.F. Canziani, N.A Leary, D.J. Dokken, K.S White (eds). Climate Change 2001: Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability: Contribution of the Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 0521015006
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), B. Metz, O. Davidson, R. Swart, J. Pan (eds). Climate Change 2001: Mitigation: Contribution of Working Group III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 0521015022
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), R.T. Watson, and the core writing team (eds). Climate Change 2001: Synthesis Report: Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 0521015073
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I. Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, publicly released February 2007 and published in book form by Cambridge University Press in August 2007, 9780521705967
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), B. Metz, O. Davidson, P. Bosch, R. Dave, L. Meyer (eds). Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change: Contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 9780521705981
• Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), M. Parry, O. Canziani, J. Palutikof, P. van der Linden, C. Hanson (eds). Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 9780521705974
• Kendal McGuffie and Ann Henderson-Sellers. A Climate Modelling Primer, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd edition, 2005, 0470857501
• Michael D. King, Claire L. Parkinson, Kim C. Partington, Robin G. Williams. Our Changing Planet: The View from Space, Cambridge University Press, 2007,  9780521828703
• Betty Bowers Marriott. Environmental Impact Assessment: A Practical Guide, McGraw-Hill Professional, US, 1997, 0070404100
• Mark Maslin. Global Warming: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2009, 9780199548248
• Peter Morris. Methods of Environmental Impact Assessment, Spon Press, 2nd edition, 2001, 1841420123
• Xavier Rodo and Francisco Comin. Global Climate: Current Research and Uncertainties in the Climate System, Springer, 2002, 3540438203
• Jan Rotmans and Bert de Vries (eds.). Perspectives on Global Change: The TARGETS Approach, Cambridge University Press, 1997, 0521621763
• Gavin Schmidt, Joshua Wolfe and Jeffrey Sachs (foreword). Climate Change: Picturing the Science, W. W. Norton & Co, April 2009, 9780393331257
• Kevin Trenberth (ed). Climate System Modelling, Cambridge University Press, 1993, 0521432316.
• Warren M. Washington and Claire L. Parkinson. Introduction to Three-Dimensional Climate Modeling, University Science Books, 2nd edition, 2005, 1891389351
• William J. Burroughs. The climate revealed, Mitchell Beazley, 1999, 1840001356
• National Research Council (US). Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the Last 2,000 Years, National Academies Press (US), 2006, 9780309102254
• Ranulph Fiennes (foreword) and NPA Satellite Mapping Group. Above the World: Stunning Satellite Images from Above Earth, Cassell Illustrated, 2005, 1844034992 (hbk)
• Zac Goldsmith. Earth Then and Now: Potent Visual Evidence of our Changing World, Mitchell Beazley, 2007, 9781845332464 (hbk)
• J.R. McNeill. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth- Century World, Penguin, 2000

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Current arguments and key debates

• David Archer. The Long Thaw: How Humans are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate, Princeton University Press, 2008, 9780691136547
• Bjorn Lomborg. The Skeptical Environmentalist, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 0521010683
• Andrew E. Dessler and Edward A. Parson. The Science and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Guide to the Debate, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 0521539412
• Ross Gelbspan. Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Have Fuelled the Climate Crisis – And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster, Basic Books, 2004, 0465027628
• Jeremy Leggett. The Carbon War: Global Warming and the End of the Oil Era, Routledge, new edition, 2001, 0415931029
• Marcel Leroux. Global Warming: Myth or Reality? The Erring Ways of Climatology, Springer Praxis Books, 2005, 354023909X
• Urs Luterbacher and Detlef Sprinz (eds.). International Relations and Global Climate Change, The MIT Press, 2001, 0262621495
• Frank Oldfield. Environmental Change: Key Issues and Alternative Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 0521536332
• George Philander. Is the Temperature Rising? The Uncertain Science of Global Warming, Princeton University Press, 2000, 0691050341
• A. Barrie Pittock. Climate Change: Turning the Heat Up, Earthscan Publications, 2006, 1844073009
• Clive Spash. Greenhouse Economics: Values and Ethics, Routledge, 2nd edition, 2005, 0415372445
• Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder. The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change, Icon Books, March 2007, 1840468157
• Michael A. Toman (ed). Climate Change Economics and Policy: An RFF Anthology, RFF Press, 2001, 189185304X
• Spencer Weart. The Discovery of Global Warming, Harvard University Press, 2003, 0674016378
• Joseph DiMento and Pamela Doughman (eds). Climate Change: What It Means for our Children and our Grandchildren, The MIT Press, 2007, 9780262541930
• Kerry Emanuel. What We Know About Climate Change, The MIT Press, 2007, 9780262050890 (hbk)
• Ramachandra Guha. How Much Should a Person Consume? Environmentalism in India and the United States, University of California Press, USA, 2006, 9780520248052
• Joyeeta Gupta. Our Simmering Planet: What to Do about Global Warming, Zed Books, 2006, 1842770799
• Melanie Jarman. Climate Change, Pluto Press in association with Oxfam GB, 2007, 9780745325804
• Bjorn Lomborg. Cool It: The Skeptical Enironmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming, Cyan-Marshall Cavendish, 2007, 9780462099125 (hbk)
• Mark Lynas. Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet, Fourth Estate, 2007, 9780007209040
• Bill McKibben. The End of Nature, Random House, 2006 (revised edition), 9780812976083
• Fred Pearce. With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change, Beacon Press, 2007, 9780807085769 (hbk)
• Robert Strom. Hot House: Global Climate Change and the Human Condition, Praxis Publishing Ltd, 2007, 9780387686110
• Gabrielle Walker and Sir David King. The hot topic: how to tackle global warming and still keep the lights on, Bloomsbury, 2008 9780747593959
• Nigel Lawson. An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming, Duckworth Overlook, 2008, 9780715637869
• Hervé Kempf. How the Rich are Destroying the Earth, Green Books, 2008, 9781900322416
• Robert Kunzig and Wallace Broecker. Fixing Climate: The Story of Climate Science and How to Stop Global Warming, Profile Books, 2008, 9781846688607
• Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek. The Earth: Natural Resources and Human Intervention (The Sustainability Project series), Haus, 2009, 9781906598099
• S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery. Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1500 Years, Rowman & Littlefield (US), 2008 (updated and expanded ed.), 9780742551244
• Jessica Wilson and Stephen Law. A Brief Guide to Global Warming, Constable & Robinson, 2007, 9781845296605 (South Africa)
• Ian Plimer. Heaven and Earth: global warming: the missing science, Quartet, 2009, 9780704371668
• James Atkins. Climate change for football fans: a matter of life and death, UIT, 2011, 9781906860356
• Christopher Booker. The real global warming disaster: is the obsession with “climate change” turning out to be the most costly scientific blunder in history? Continuum, 2009, 9781441110527
• A.W. Montford. The hockey stick illusion: climategate and the corruption of science. Stacey International, 2010, 9781906768355
• Roger Pielke, Jr. The climate fix: what scientists and politicians won’t tell you about global warming, Basic books, 2010, 9780465020522
• Peter Taylor. Chill: a reassessment of global warming theory: does climate change mean the world is cooling, and if so what should we do about it? Clairview, 2009, 9781905570195

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Manifestos and programmes for action

• Paul Brown. Global Warning: The Last Chance for Change, The Guardian and Dakini Books, 2006, 0713682051
• Guy Dauncey. Stormy Weather: 101 Solutions to Global Climate Change, New Society Publishers, 2001, 0865714215
• Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing. The Atlas of Climate Change: Mapping the World’s Greatest Challenge, Earthscan, 2006, 1844073769
• Thomas Friedman. Hot, Flat and Crowded: Why the World Needs a Green revolution and How We can Renew Our Global Future, Allen Lane, 2008, 9781846141294
• Herbert Giradet and Miguel Mendonca. A Renewable World – Policies, Practices and Technologies, Green Books, May 2009, 9781900322492
• Leigh Glover. Postmodern Climate Change, Routledge, 2006, 0415357349
• Al Gore. An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, Rodale, 2006, 0747589062
• Eric Lambin. The Middle Path: Avoiding Environmental Catastrophe, University of Chicago Press, 2007, 9780226468532 (Belgium)
• James Lovelock. The Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back – and How We Can Still Save Humanity, Allen Lane, 2006, 0141025972
• Bjorn Lomborg. Solutions for the World's Biggest Problems: Costs and Benefits, Cambridge University Press, 2007, 9780521715973
• James Lovelock. The Vanishing Face of Gaia, Allen Lane (Penguin), 2009, 9781846141850
• George Monbiot. Heat: How To Stop the Planet Burning, Allen Lane, Penguin Books, 2006, 0713999241
• George Monbiot. Bring on the Apocalypse: Six Arguments for Global Justice, Atlantic Books, 2008, 9781843546566
• Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent. The New Atlas of Planet Management, University of California Press, 2005, 0520238796
• Fred Pearce. The Last Generation, Eden Books, Transworld, 2006, 1903919886
• Stuart Pimm. The World According to Pimm: A Scientist Audits the Earth, McGraw Hill, 2001, 0071374906
• Jules Pretty. The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting Nature with our Place in it, Earthscan 2007, 9781844074327
• Dave Reay. Climate Change Begins at Home: Life on the Two-Way Street of Global Warming, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, 0230007546
• Hermann Scheer. A Solar Manifesto, Earthscan Publications, 2nd edition, 2005, 1902916514
• Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Wolfgang Cramer, et al. (eds). Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 0521864712
• James Speth. Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment, Yale University Press, 2nd edition, 2005, 0300107765
• Nicholas Stern. The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 0521700809
• Nicholas Stern. Blueprint for a Safer Planet: How to manage Climate Change and Create a New Era of Progress and Prosperity, The Bodley Head, April 2009, 9781847920379
• William Sweet. Kicking the Carbon Habit: Global Warming and the Case for Renewable and Nuclear Energy, Columbia University Press, US, 2006, 0231137109
• Tom Wessels. The Myth of Progress: Towards a Sustainable Future, University of Vermont Press, 2006, 1584654953
• Al Gore. The Assault on Reason. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2007, 352pp, 9780747590972, $15.57
• Tony Juniper. Saving Planet Earth: What Is Destroying the Earth and What You Can Do to Help, Collins, 2007, 0007261837
• Mayer Hillman, Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan. The Suicidal Planet: How to Prevent Global Climate Catastrophe, Thomas Dunne Books, 2007
• Peter McManners. Victims of success: civilization at risk, Susta, 2009, 9780955736919 

• John Grant. Co-opportunity: join up for a sustainable, resilient, prosperous world, Wiley, 2010, 9780470684368

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Individuals: observations and narratives

• Simon Faithfull. Ice Blink: An Antarctic Essay, Book Works, 2006
• Mark Hertsgaard. Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future, Abacus, 1999, 0767900596
• Chad Kister. Arctic Melting: How Global Warming is Destroying One of the Worlds’s Largest Wilderness Areas, Common Courage Press, US, 2005, 1567512844
• Elizabeth Kolbert. Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Bloomsbury, 2006, 0747583838
• Mark Lynas, Tim Flannery, Fred Pearce, Elizabeth Kolbert, Bjorn Lomborg, Guy Dauncey, Michael Allaby. Fragile Earth: Views of a Changing World, Collins, 2006, 0007233140
• Jim Motavalli (ed). Feeling the Heat: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Climate Change, Routledge, 2004, 0415946565
• Gino Segre. A Matter of Degrees: What Temperature Reveals about the Past and Future of our Species, Planet and Universe, Penguin, 2003, 014200278X
• Edwards, Marc, Lloyd Timberlake. Hard rain: our headlong collision with nature. London: Still pictures moving words, 2006. 1905588003
• Bill McKibben. Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth, Milkweed Editions, 2007, 9781571313003
• David Suzuki and Holly Dressel. From Naked Ape to Superspecies: Humanity and the Global Eco-Crisis, Greystone Books, 2004 (2nd edition), 9781553650317
• David Suzuki and Holly Dressel. Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet, Greystone Books, 2003, 9781550549263
• David Suzuki. The David Suzuki Reader: A Lifetime of Ideas from a Leading Activist and Thinker, Greystone Books, 2004, 9781553650225
• David Suzuki and Amanda McConnell. The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering Our Place in Nature, Greystone Books, 2006 (2nd edition), 9781550549638
• Fred Pearce. Confessions of an eco-sinner: travels to find where my stuff comes from, Eden project, 2008, 9781905811106
• John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin. James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia, Princeton University Press, April 2009, 9780691137506
• Mark Watson. Crap at the Environment, Hodder & Stoughton, 2008, 9780340952801

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