Book List

The Two-Mile Time Machine
Richard B. Alley
Ice cores, abrupt climate change, and our future
Is the Temperature Rising?
S. George Philander
The uncertain science of global warming
Greenhouse
Gale E. Christianson
The 200-year story of global warming
Krakatoa
Simon Winchester
The day the world exploded: August 27, 1883
Inside the Hurricane
Pete Davies
Face to face with nature's deadliest storms
Hurricane Watch
Bob Sheets & Jack Williams
Forecasting the deadliest storms on earth
Floods, Famines, and Emperors
Brian Fagin
El Niño and the fate of civilizations
Isaac's Storm
Eric Larson
The 1900 Galveston hurricane
Wind
Jan DeBlieu
How the flow of air has shaped life, myth, and the land
Floods, Droughts, and Climate
  Change
Michael Collier &
  Robert H. Webb
Understanding why floods and droughts occur
The Ice Finders
Edmund Blair Bolles
How a poet, a professor, and a politician discovered
  the ice age
The Illustrated Longitude Dava Sobel &
  William J.H. Andrews
How a lone genius solved the greatest scientific problem
  of his time
The Little Ice Age
Brian Fagin
How climate made history 1300-1850
Storm of the Century
Willie Drye
The labor day hurricane of 1935
El Niño
J. Madeliene Nash
Unlocking the secrets of the master weather-maker
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
An account of the 1996 Mt. Everest expedition
Oxygen the Molecule that Made the World
Nick Lane
Oxygen in the atmosphere and the evolution of life
Isaac Newton
James Gleick
The life and work of perhaps the greatest scientist of all time
State of Fear
Michael Crichton
The science of climate change in a fictional novel
Frozen Earth
Doug Macdougall
Past ice ages and the earth's climate history