I just one one good book that takes seriously the old statistical truism that correlation does not imply causation and lays out the evidence and the arguments for CO2 actually causing climate change.

“I was thinking of a book that does not do any debunking, just presenting the science as if there were no climate “debate”. Once you understand the climate system, you cannot read WUWT anymore without crying. And it would also be great to get these people to read books, not blogs.”

Yes- although there’s a place for both. My belated and repeated recommendation there would be ‘The Long Thaw’ by David Archer which is a very plain in clearly presenting the actual science with no polemics – good text :

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8719.html

GLOBAL WARMING AND POLITICAL INTIMIDATION
How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated Up
Raymond S. Bradley
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011

On page 141 he writes:

Science must remain separate from politics, but once scientists understand the issues, we must then decide our own political stance. By the same token, politics must stay out of science. Once politicians try to influence public opinion by manipulating scientific information or suppressing the findings of government scientists, we enter a world of duplicity and deception. Trust evaporates and cynicism triumphs. And then we all lose.

True that.

The first is by ecologist Amy Seidl, writing about changes around her Vermont home. Here’s my review.

The second is Under a Green Sky by Peter D. Ward. It is perhaps the best explanation in book form of why scientists have begun to speak out in public about the dangers they see ahead — dangers revealed not by computer models, but by established laws of physics and by comparison of current conditions with evidence gleaned from the fossil record.

FWIW: Here are the customer review statistics for the ones on Amazon (sorry about the formatting.)

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THE CLIMATE CRISIS 14 1 0 0 0 13 October 2013
GLOBAL WARMING 8 0 2 0 1 19 May 2014
DIRE PREDICTIONS 20 3 2 1 3 14 October 2013
THE HOCKEY STICK 178 19 5 8 45 22 May 2014
STORMS 95 21 8 4 6 20 May 2014
FIELD NOTES 64 24 7 3 1 7 June 2014
INTRO. MODERN 1 1 0 0 0 31 Dec 2012
ROUGH GUIDE 10 2 0 0 1 19 March 2014
INCONVENIENT TRUTH 22 5 0 4 18 22 May 2014
WHAT’S THE WORST? 41 3 1 1 7 30 April 2014