Happy Christmas! Buy a Book!
Did you get a gift certificate for Christmas?
Amazon, Barnes and Noble?
Borders perhaps?
Here are my suggestions for some of the best reads related to science, climate change and meteorology. I have written about these books in previous blogs, but this time you have money in your pocket!
Let’s start with weather:
Rough Guide to Weather by Robert Henson
The AMS Weather Book by Jack Williams
These two books alone answer just about every weather question I have ever heard. Believe me when I tell you that is saying something!
These two really are THE BEST out there for ages 12 -99. I know of few meteorologists who do not have one or both.
The best books on Climate Science are IMHO:
The Two Mile Time Machine by Richard Alley
The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson
You don’t need a degree in advanced mathematics to understand them and they are spot on as far as the science goes. Jut a few days ago, I linked to a lecture given by Richard Alley at the AGU conference just last week. It was one of those “how we know what we know” talks that I think anyone would find interesting.
Full disclosure: Robert Henson (Bobby) is a friend of mine. Jack Williams is an “email friend”.
Best books on science in General:
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins
The book by Sagan is now considered a classic must read. He saw the war on science as the first shots were fired and it worried him greatly. Based on the events of the past 4 years, he was right to worry. Arm yourself with some real knowledge from one of the greatest teachers of science ever.
Dawkins book is a collection of some of the best writings about science from the greatest in the field. I grabbed the book on a lark and was not disappointed!
There are some other great books and I mentioned them last summer here.
