Global Warming and Climate Change: What should I read next?

Question

Life is getting rather busy and will continue be so well into this year, so I need to take a break from here for a while.  Hopefully there will still be a YA/GW section to come back to; if there is, then I would like to return as a more effective contributor.

To that end, what should I be reading to broaden my knowledge of climate change?

All I have really looked at in depth is the greenhouse effect itself.  My knowledge of other areas; feedbacks, climate sensitivity, weather changes etc, is less good; just what I have picked up here.

To give you an idea of the level, the last book I read was GW Petty's, A First Course In Atmospheric Radiation; an excellent book, aimed at undergraduate students of Meteorology and climatology.

So, with that level in mind, any recommendations?

Thanks in anticipation; hope to be back in the summer.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

There is a series of paperback books called "Princeton Primers in Climate" that are authored by top people in the field.  Any of those will be up-to-date on the specialties of the authors. They are aimed at people that are not necessarily active in climate science, but they don't shy away from showing some physics and equations, either.

I also think the textbook Principles of Planetary Climate by Pierrehumbert is excellent and it includes the Python code necessary to reproduce the figures and run experiments yourself.

By the way, Grant Petty also published a nice little book on atmospheric thermodynamics.  For that matter, Judith Curry and her husband Peter Webster have a pretty good one too.

More importantly, keep studying the things that interest you, no matter whether they seem useful or not.

Das · Answer

Read Divine Nature by Mukunda Goswami.

Al P · Answer

There's a great deal of integrity and knowledge running through your questions and answers Darwinist. I scanned the Grant Petty book. Any textbook on modern physics should give you more detail on things like Planck's Theory.  Best wishes to you, and I hope to see you again :)

? · Answer

Actually ... I'm still here anonymous answerer ...

We just don't answer the flood of anonymous questions posted by chicken **** skeptics like you who block us.

Sorry to see you go Darwinist! Come back soon ...

Peter Boiter Woods · Answer

Read ALL the science:

https://junkscience.com/2019/12/climate-prediction-swings-and-misses-a-decade-of-alarmist-strikeouts-2010-2019/

https://junkscience.com/2020/01/study-no-experimental-evidence-for-anthropogenic-climate-change/

οικος · Answer

You might try the biological approach, learning about Life Zones and biomes. Changes in distribution often give the first indications of climate change and you can't accuse plants and animals of moving to warmer or colder areas just for the grant money. [Obviously, this refers to the populations in general, not to individual organisms.

Global Warming and Climate Change: What should I read next?

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