People often ask us for recommendations of things to read or view to help them grasp the arguments over global warming.

For instance, “What would be the best book/article which critiques the global warming hysteria?” Or “What’s a good short, simple thing to read about climate change?” Or “What should I give to my scientist friend that will show that serious climate scientists question the idea of catastrophic, anthropogenic global warming?”

Many resources come to mind. Below are some recommendations under various categories. I should note that, aside from former Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) chairman John Houghton’s Global Warming: The Complete Briefing (which I include because it is perhaps the most level-headed of the more “mainstream” treatments of the subject, and because its explanation of the physics and chemistry of the “greenhouse effect” is pretty objective and helpful), all of these sources present more or less skeptical views. Why the imbalance? Because most academic reading lists and the mainstream media offer only works by “true believers,” so those are easy to find. These are more difficult to find.

I’ve provided hyperlinks to those available from the Cornwall Alliance and, because they are so significant, to the reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC).

Short and simple written sources that deal mostly with the science. These are the sorts of things you should read first.

1. E. Calvin Beisner, “Climate Science, Energy Policy, Poverty, and Christian Faith: How do they Connect?” (Cornwall Alliance, 2016, online and print)
2. E. Calvin Beisner, Paul K. Driessen, Ross McKitrick, and Roy W. Spencer, A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Response to Global Warming (Cornwall Alliance, 2006)
3. David R. Legates and G. Cornelis van Kooten, A Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor 2014: The Case against Harmful Climate Change Policies Gets Stronger (Cornwall Alliance, 2014)
4. Craig Vincent Mitchell, Roy W. Spencer, and G. Cornelis van Kooten, lead authors, A Renewed Call to Truth, Prudence, and Protection of the Poor: An Evangelical Examination of the Theology, Science, and Economics of Global Warming (Cornwall Alliance, 2009)
5. Willie Soon, Sallie L. Baliunas, Arthur B. Robinson, and Zachary W. Robinson, Global Warming: A Guide to the Science (Fraser Institute, 2001)
6. Roy W. Spencer, Global Warming Skepticism for Busy People (Cornwall Alliance, 2018, print)
7. Roy W. Spencer, An Inconvenient Deception: How Al Gore Distorts Climate Science and Energy Policy (Cornwall Alliance, 2017, print)
8. Roy W. Spencer, Paul K. Driessen, and E. Calvin Beisner, An Examination of the Scientific, Ethical, and Theological Implications of Climate Change Policy (Cornwall Alliance [then called Interfaith Stewardship Alliance], 2005)

Longer written sources but still readily comprehensible to non-experts.

1. Ralph B. Alexander, Global Warming False Alarm: The Bad Science Behind the United Nations’ Assertion that Man-made CO2 Causes Global Warming (Canterbury, 2009)
2. Robert M. Carter, Climate: The Counter Consensus (Stacey International, 2010)
3. Christopher Essex and Ross McKitrick, Taken By Storm: The Troubled Science, Policy, and Politics of Global Warming, rev. ed. (Key Porter Books, 2007)
4. Christian Gerandeau, Climate: The Great Delusion—A Study of the Climatic, Economic and Political Realities (Stacey International, 2010)
5. Steve Goreham, Climatism! Science, Common Sesne, and the 21^st Century’s Hottest Topic (New Lenox, 2010)
6. Doug L. Hoffman and Allen Simmons, The Resilient Earth: Science, Global Warming and the Future of Humanity (theresilientearth.com, 2008)
7. Nigel Lawson, An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming (Overlook Duckworth, 2008)
8. Patrick J. Michaels, ed., Climate Coup: Global Warming’s Invasion of Our Government and Our Lives (Cato, 2011)
9. Patrick J. Michaels, Meltdown: The Predictable Distortion of global Warming by Scientists, Politicians, and the Media (Cato, 2004)
10. Patrick J. Michaels, ed., Shattered Consensus: The True State of Global Warming (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005)
11. Patrick J. Michaels, Sound and Fury: The Science and Politics of Global Warming (Cato Institute, 1992)
12. Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr., The Satanic Gases: Clearing the Air about Global Warming (Cato Institute, 2000)
13. Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling Jr., Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know (Cato, 2008)
14. Alan Moran, ed., Climate Change the Facts 2014 (Institute of Public Affairs, 2014)
15. Roger A. Pielke Jr., The Rightful Place of Science: Disasters & Climate Change, 2d ed. (Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, 2018)
16. Ian Plimer, Heaven and Earth: Global Warming the Missing Science (Taylor, 2009)
17. S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery, Unstoppable Global Warming Every 1,500 Years, 2d ed. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)
18. Roy W. Spencer, Climate Confusion: How Global Warming Hysteria Leads to Bad Science, Pandering Politicians and Misguided Policies that Hurt the Poor (Encounter, 2008)
19. Roy W. Spencer, The Great Global Warming Blunder: How Mother Nature Fooled the World’s Top Climate Scientists (Encounter, 2010)
20. Roy W. Spencer, A Guide to Understanding Global Temperature Data, 21 pages (Cornwall Alliance)
21. Gregory Wrightstone, Inconvenient Facts: The Science that Al Gore Doesn’t Want You to Know (Silver Crown, 2017)

More technical written sources, regardless of length.

1. All of the reports (Climate Change Reconsidered, CCR) by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), available at http://climatechangereconsidered.org/, which follow here as 2–12.
2. Full Text of Climate Change Reconsidered, 2009
3. Summary of Climate Change Reconsidered, 2009
4. Full Text of CCR: Interim Report, 2011
5. Summary of CCR: Interim Report, 2011
6. Full Text of CCR II: Physical Science, 2013
7. Summary of CCR II: Physical Science, 2013
8. Full Text of CCR II: Biological Impacts, 2014
9. Summary of CCR II: Biological Impacts, 2014
10. Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming, 2016
11. Full Text of CCR II: Fossil Fuels, 2019
12. Summary of CCR II: Fossil Fuels, 2019
13. Sir John Houghton, Global Warming: The Complete Briefing, 3d ed. (Cambridge, 2004)
14. Willie Wei-Hock Soon and Steven H. Yaskell, The Maunder Minimum and the Sun-Earth Connection (World Scientific, 2003)
15. Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder, The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate Change (Icon Books, 2007)
16. G. Cornelis van Kooten, Climate Change, Climate Science and Economics: Prospects for an Alternative Energy Future (Springer, 2013)

Written sources that deal heavily with the political and communications (including Climategate) aspects of the climate-change controversy (though most also deal at least somewhat with the science).

1. Larry Bell, Scared Witless: Prophets and Profits of Climate Doom (Stairway Press)
2. Christopher Booker, The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is the Obsession with ‘Climate Change’ Turning Out to be the Most Costly Scientific Blunder in History? (Continuum, 2009)
3. Rupert Darwall, The Age of Global Warming: A History (Quartet, 2013)
4. Vincent Gray, The Global Warming Scam and the Climate Change Superscam (Stairway Press, 2015)
5. Christopher C. Horner, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism (Regnery, 2007)
6. Christopher C. Horner, Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed (Regnery, 2008)
7. James Inhofe, The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future (WND Books, 2012)
8. Václav Klaus, Blue Planet in Green Shackles: What Is Endangered—Climate or Freedom? (Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2007)
9. A.W. Montford, Hiding the Decline: A History of the Climategate Affair (Createspace, 2012)
10. A.W. Montford, The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science (Stacey International, 2010)
11. Thomas Gale Moore, Climate of Fear: Why We Shouldn’t Worry about Global Warming (Cato, 1998)
12. Marc Morano, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Climate Change (Regnery, 2018)
13. Steven Mosher and Thomas W. Fuller, Climategate the Crutape Letters (self-published, 2010)
14. Garth W. Paltridge, The Climate Caper (Connor Court, 2010)
15. Lawrence Solomon, The Deniers: The world-renowned scientists who stood up against global warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud* *and those who are too fearful to do so (Richard Vigilante/Current Affairs, 2008)

Video sources.

1. E. Calvin Beisner, Climate Change and the Christian (Cornwall Alliance)
2. Where the Grass Is Greener: Biblical Stewardship vs. Climate Alarmism (Cornwall Alliance)
3. Where the Grass Is Greener 2: Helping the Poor Amid Climate Confusion (Cornwall Alliance)
4. Greener on the Other Side: Climate Alarmism—Facts, Not Fear, a 33-video series on the Cornwall Alliance’s YouTube channel.

6. Websites.

1. http://www.drroyspencer.com/
2. http://climatechangereconsidered.org/
3. https://wattsupwiththat.com/
4. https://judithcurry.com/
5. https://climateaudit.org/
6. https://www.rossmckitrick.com/
7. http://joannenova.com.au/
8. https://notrickszone.com/
9. https://realclimatescience.com/
10. http://rankexploits.com/musings/
11. http://www.masterresource.org/
12. http://www.surfacestations.org/
13. https://www.nsstc.uah.edu/data/msu/v6.0/tlt/uahncdc_lt_6.0.txt

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