Recommended Reading: The Climate Change Debate
February 2007
Books, Electronic Books, Media, Websites and Periodicals
Books:
The weather makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth / Tim
Flannery.
363.73874 F585w 2005
Global climate change / edited by Paul McCaffrey.
363.73874 G562 2006
Global warming ; opposing viewpoints / James Haley, book editor.
363.73874 G562 2002
The Greenhouse effect / edited by Matthew A. Kraljic.
363.7387 G813
Global warming : a very short introduction / Mark Maslin.
363.73874 M397g 2004
Global warming : personal solutions for a healthy planet / Christopher Spence.
363.738748 S744g 2005
Is the temperature rising? : the uncertain science of global warming / S. George Philander.
551.52 P544i 1998
Climate affairs : a primer / Michael H. Glantz.
551.6 G545c 2003
Electronic Books:
Environmental Encyclopedia (Gale Virtual Reference Library)
Outgrowing the earth [electronic resource] : the food security challenge in the age of falling
water tables and rising temperatures / Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute.
No call number available
Weather, climate, culture [electronic resource] / edited by Sarah Strauss and Ben Orlove.
304.25
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Climate change and the oil industry [electronic resource] : common problem, varying strategies /
Jon Birger Skjµrseth and Tora Skodvin.
363.738/74
The global warming desk reference [electronic resource] / Bruce E. Johansen.
363.738/74
Climate change [electronic resource] : a multidisciplinary approach / William James Burroughs.
551.6
Media:
Global warming: the signs and the science (60 min. DVD) / [written by Michael Taylor and
David Kennard; a production of Stonehaven Production Services and South Carolina ETV ;
produced by David Kennard.]
363.73874 G562 2005
Global environmental issues (23 min. DVD) / Schlessinger Media ; produced and directed by
CBS News Productions.
363.7 G562 2004
Hot planet, cold comfort (30 min. DVD) / written, produced and directed by John Angier ;
presented by CPTV ; produced in association with Scientific American magazine ; produced by
Chedd-Angier.
363.73874 H832 2005
An Inconvenient Truth (96 min. DVD) / [presented by] Paramount Classics and Participant
Productions ; a Lawrence Bender/Laurie David production ; a Carbon Neutral production ;
directed by Davis Guggenheim ; produced by Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns ;
executive producers, Jeff Skoll ... [et al.] ; co-producer, Leslie Chilcott.
363.73874 I37 2006
Science seminar presents: what you can do to stop global warming (VHS)
363.73874 S416g 2004
The venus theory (52 min. DVD) / director and screenwriter, Pasi Toiviainen ; producers, Jarkko
Hentula, Pasi Toiviainen.
363.738 V471 2004
Warnings from the ice (60 min. VHS) / written, produced and directed by Robert Gardner ; a
production by the WGBH/Boston Science Unit in association with Sveriges Television.
363.738 W285 1998
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The climate puzzle (60 min. VHS) / a production of WQED, Pittsburgh, in association with the
National Academy of Sciences ; producer, Gregory Andorfer ; written by Gregory Andorfer,
Georgann Kane, Deane Rink.
550 P712p
Fate of the earth (60 min. VHS) / a production of WQED, Pittsburgh, in association with the
National Academy of Sciences ; series producer, Gregory Andorfer ; producer, Robin Bates ;
written by Robin Bates, Chip Walter.
550 P712p
Climate, weather, and people (34 min. VHS) / Hawkhill Associates ; writer, Bill Stonebarger.
551.6 C639
Extreme engineering. Holland’s barriers to the sea (50 min. DVD) / produced by Powderhouse
Productions for Discovery Channel ; produced by Harlan Reiniger ; written by Ed Fields, Alan
Lindgren.
620 E96h 2003
Websites:
EPA global warming site
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/index.html
Climate History and the Sun (links to PDF; paper refuting the link of CO2 and global warming)
http://www.marshall.org/pdf/materials/90.pdf
Global warming FAQ from NCDC and NOAA
http://lwf.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/globalwarming.html
Global Warming Facts and Our Future
http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/exhibitgcc/
What has been happening to polar bears in recent decades?
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/essay_schliebe.html
The Canary Project
http://www.canary-project.org/
Climate Change, from the Birch Aquarium at Scripps
http://aquarium.ucsd.edu/learning/learning_res/climatechange.cfm
What’s up with the weather?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/
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Periodicals:
Global warming : science, politics and nature.
Melting Ice - Rising Seas The front line of global warming
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