The Web does have some excellent resources, to be sure. I often send people to Climate Central, a fine site based in Princeton that works to translate climate science into understandable prose. For people starting from a contrarian bent, nothing beats Skeptical Science, a Web site that directly answers various skeptic talking points, with links to some of the original science. And Real Climate is a must-read, since it includes some of the world’s top climate scientists translating their research into layman’s language.
Still, for wrapping our minds around a subject, many of us want to flee the Web and curl up with a good book. So I was enthused recently when “The Warming Papers” came to my attention.
A hefty new volume published by Wiley-Blackwell and edited by the climate scientists David Archer and Raymond Pierrehumbert at the University of Chicago, it’s a rich feast for anyone who wants to trace the history of climate science from its earliest origins to the present.
(Note that it’s a pricey book, north of $60 in paperback and closer to $150 in hardback — so perhaps it won’t be an impulse purchase for many people. But I suspect well-stocked libraries will have it, and even if yours doesn’t, you should be able to get a copy through interlibrary loan. And the book might work for college classes in climate science; by textbook standards, $60 is a steal.)
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