Great books on climate change/anthropogenic global warming?

For what you are looking for I don't think you can beat

"The Weather Makers: The History and Future Impact of Climate Change" Tim Flannery

http://www.theweathermakers.org/

Also on my bookshelf that I would recommend

"Six Degrees Our Future On A Hotter Planet" by Mark Lynas

"The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate in Crisis and the Fate of Humanity" by James Lovelock

"With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change" by Fred Pearce

"Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning" by George Monbiot

"Climate Wars" by Gwynn Dyer

http://books.google.ca/books?id=srdlml5_8JcC&print...

"Greenhouse: The 200-Year Story of Global Warming" by Gale E. Christianson

"The Great Warming"

"The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization" and

"Floods, Famines, And Emperors: El Nino And The Fate Of Civilizations" by Brian Fagan

Though not about climate change but related -

"Collapse" by Jared Diamond

"Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis" - by Alanna Mitchell

One nice book that I don't think anyone else has mentioned is "Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It" by Wallace Broecker and Robert Kunzig. Broecker has been one of the leading lights in the field of climate change for many years. His background is in geology, which may come as a shock to some people that think no geologists believe in it.

Non-technical, The Hot Topic, David King (professor at Cambridge, then Oxford), discusses evidence, range of possibilities, economic consequences of actions and inactions.

Readable but more technically detailed, Global Warming, The Complete Briefing, John Houghton (former professor of atmospheric physics, Oxford), new edition in 2009 so pretty up-to-date. Discusses the relative importance of all the various factors involved, and as well as the past climate record and what it shows us.

whenever there is a hot-button topic that emerges, i try to find books that may have warned about possible problems from a while back and see just how correct people were in the past.......with that in mind, i have a great book which i will list below as a "source"........but the two authors (both named erlich) were extremely forward thinking by using statistics of the past to come up with what would now be considered common knowledge thinking...

Sorry, I can't help with a book. But take a look at the National Geographic website.

http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/environm...

There is a lot of material there, written for readers not scientists. I think it will provide you much of what you are looking for.

Joseph Romm's 'Hell and High Water' is my favorite. Mark Lynas' 'Six Degrees' and George Monbiot's 'Heat' are good ones as well.

http://www.amazon.com/Storms-My-Grandchildren-Cata... by James Hansen (World's most respected climatologist from NASA)

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Our-Choice/Al-Gor... Is another good read, though a bit more technical. It's still easy to follow.

I hope you find this one informative.

It supports AGW, 'while not the over-hyped scaremongering that it generates.

intro to cilmatology

look in the SCIENCE FICTION AREA OF THE LIBRARY.