Reading Recommendations

Here’s a list of a few books / readings that I’ve enjoyed recently, that are vaguely related to climate and atmospheric science (in no particular order).

1. Edwards, P. N. (2010). A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. MIT Press.
2. Oreskes, N. (2020). Science on a Mission: How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean. University of Chicago Press.
3. Gooley, T. (2021). The Secret World of Weather: How to Read Signs in Every Cloud, Breeze, Hill, Street, Plant, Animal, and Dewdrop. The Experiment.
4. Rappaport, E. (2023). Reading the Glass: A Captain’s View of Weather, Water, and Life. Dutton.
5. Larson, E. (1999). Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History. Random House.
6. Trethewey, L. (2023). The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World’s Oceans. Harper Collins.
7. O’Connor, M.R. (2023). Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World. Bold Type Books.
8. Sobel, D. (1995). Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time. Fourth Estate Paperbacks.
9. Oreskes, N. and E. Conway. (2023). The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. Bloomsbury Publishing.
10. Blum, A. (2019). The Weather Machine: A Journey Inside the Forecast. Ecco.
11. The Best American Science and Nature Writing series.
12. Coen, D.R. A brief history of usable climate science. Climatic Change 167, 51 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-021-03181-2. (within collection that covers similar issues, entitled Critical and historical perspectives on usable climate science)