I remember, as a 10 year old in a new library, thinking it was possible to read all the books on the shelves. I even started — in Science Fiction with Asimov I believe. By the time I got to Stapleton I knew my reading eyes were bigger than my reading stomach; I would never get to say, the section on Gardening.

Now, instead of small community libraries, we have the world wide web for pete’s sake! The hope isn’t to read even 1% of what is out there but to try to find and hold on to the sites and authors who can help us make sense of the world around us.

Naturally, these days, Global Warming — at the micro level (it was 101 on my balcony yesterday) and the macro level — is all about us. Our attention turns, we hope not too late, to understanding what is going on and how we might add, or subtract, our efforts. Here are a couple of blogs for you to consider.

RealClimate.Org is devoted to climate science itself, not the politics or economics related.

The Discovery of Global Warming (linked from RealClimate.org) is a long set of links describing how climate change research became recognized in the scientific community, and later amongst the public.