A suggested Global Warming reading list

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coming_Global_Superstorm

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/15/zubrin.htm

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/archive/13/zubrin.htm

http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speeches/complexity/complexity.html

http://www.crichton-official.com/speeches/npc-speech.html

http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN354023909X&id=w9QVlNzn_asC&pg=PA76&lpg=PA76&ots=KmzHaJUGSw&dq=coming+global+superstorm&sig=2zgQNjhLQYcSDItoHyhBPo5cc2Q#PPA106,M1

Here’s a few comments on the suggested reading list.

The first link is to a wikipedia review of a fictional novel from 1999 called The Coming Global Superstorm. The movie The Day After is very loosely based on it. While the book is much better than the movie, it is a work of fiction. But in turn it is on this list because it is a good enjoyable read for layman who read the novel.

The next two links are written by an engineer who can speak in English to we laymen. But most will have to read and reread each article at least twice to get the gist. The last of the two is on the list for one more reason. The author offers a practical and economic solution to energy independence that is appealing.

Links four and five are speeches from the author Michael Crichton. Both speeches are non-fiction in nature, and intended for politicians and bureaucrats. Both are also in plain English, full of graphics, and like the links two and three, will probably have to be read at least two times by most.

The sixth and last link takes advantage of what Google is doing in scanning in books and putting them on-line, for free (at least to us right now). It is also non-fiction, incomplete in the total scanning online, but a good and fair history of global warming, albeit with a more U.N. bent. This link alone is a very long read, and most will probably read it selectively.

All the links recommended tend to ignore all the politico-media and pseudo-religious aspects of the brouhaha right now. And all collectively focus on the more practical things like engineering, applied science, the human aspect, economics, and even practical solutions.