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Good Books For Both Sides Of The Climate Change Debate?
I am trying to figure out how I feel about the issue of Climate Change/Global Warming and weather it is caused by man and how serious it is, as that is one political issue I have not studied much, so I am wondering if someone on here can recommend at least one good book to read that argues the position that it is a serious issue caused by human beings and one book giving the side of it is not caused by human beings and not a particularly serious issue.
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It could be that there's no-one here who knows "good" books, on one side or the other (or perhaps even both), despite having seen the question. The issue of "good" is in any case rather subjective. A "good" book is presumably one that evaluates the scientific evidence fairly, but since the evidence overwhelmingly points in one direction, it would be extremely difficult for any book arguing against the "serious issue caused by human beings" to be "good" by this measure. Or, at least, that's what I'd argue.
The gold-standard reference for the present state of Climate Science is the IPCC report. It's the most comprehensive review of the literature. Here's the "Summary for Policymakers", which aims to avoid being too bogged down by technical details whilst still presenting the evidence fairly.
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This doesn't provide a source against, and maybe isn't as accessible as an equivalent book, but I'm certainly not the best person to provide a counter-argument, and I don't read enough popular-science books on this or any topic to be able to recommend one.
The gold-standard reference for the present state of Climate Science is the IPCC report. It's the most comprehensive review of the literature. Here's the "Summary for Policymakers", which aims to avoid being too bogged down by technical details whilst still presenting the evidence fairly.
https:/
This doesn't provide a source against, and maybe isn't as accessible as an equivalent book, but I'm certainly not the best person to provide a counter-argument, and I don't read enough popular-science books on this or any topic to be able to recommend one.
> I am wondering if someone on here can recommend at least one good book to read that argues the position of [X] and one good book that argues the position of [not X]
No, they can't, because that's a contradiction. If what you were asking for was possible then one really good book could argue both [X] and [not X], but one half of the book would rubbish the other half.
By the way, I agree with Jim's assessment of the best PDF to start with. Then you can assess anything further you read against that.
No, they can't, because that's a contradiction. If what you were asking for was possible then one really good book could argue both [X] and [not X], but one half of the book would rubbish the other half.
By the way, I agree with Jim's assessment of the best PDF to start with. Then you can assess anything further you read against that.
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