Science, without hysteria

Tired of wondering who’s telling the truth about climate, weather and the relationship between the two? The folks at Climate Central, a nonprofit science and journalism organization, have heard your cries. Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future (Pantheon, $22.95) not only addresses the basics of climate science, but does so in an easy-to-follow style. It’s got chapters with titles such as “Our Ancestors Survived Climate Change. But It Wasn’t Always Pretty.” and “Once We Invented the Steam Engine, Climate Change Was Pretty Much Inevitable.” If you want science without hysteria, this is the book for you.