Authors and videographers are producing a torrent of good books on global warming and how to change the world to stop a disasterous increase in the temperature of our planet. If you've got a favorite book or DVD that's not on this list, please post a comment with the name and a sentence or two about why you like it. (Yes, we know, there's lots of things not on this list yet!) Most of the links below will take you to pages focused either on the book or DVD or the author.

The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means, by Tim Flannery (2006)

Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, by Chris Mooney

Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster, by Ross Gelbspan

An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, by Al Gore

Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elizabeth Kolbert