Some recommended books on Earth's climate

Free downloading: Prologue

David Archer, an expert on the long-term carbon cycle, introduces many important aspects of the carbon cycle and climate change in this book, all in an accessible style. He also clearly explains how the use of fossil fuels will influence Earth's climate for hundreds of thousands of years.

Free downloading: Full book. Not yet finished, but still strong recommended.

This book offers an interesting perspective: it is not only about climate knowledge, but immerses us in the life of a leading climatologist at NASA from the 1960s to the 2000s. How is science created and transmitted, however imperfectly, to the public sphere and political decision-makers?

Nathaniel Rich investigated how the chance discovery of the climate change subject by a Friends of the Earth activist allowed American politicians to seize upon the issue in the 1980s, before being abruptly halted by a few climate-skeptic figures.