well, i get most of my information from about 10 blogs and about 10 sources of straight data (very rough estimates), the only book I have read was the one by Donna Laframboise called "The Delinquent Teenager That Was Mistaken FOr the World's Top Climate Scientist" which was an investigative piece on the IPCC. I will tell you that there is no way to read that book and still think the IPCC is all they report to be. This book undermines their credibility greatly and with detailed footnotes and documentation. It is incontrovertible in terms of establishing great problems with the IPCC reports. Otherwise, I would read some of the "lukewarmers" because they aren't as dogmatic one way or another and that gives a more balanced approach. I love reading Judith Curry's webpage as she is quite the scientist and was a big AGW supporter until climate gate when she smelled a rat. Since then she has been critical of the dogma associated with climate science. Bjorn Lomborg is interesting because he is fairly convinced of AGW theory but still thinks our approach should be quite moderated and that we should focus on other far more urgent issues first. This approach makes me respect him far more than those who want to make AGW the only issue.
I also encourage you to read the actual data on temperatures (taking special note on how they have been "adjusted" to fit the narrative), snow cover, hurricanes, tornadoes, arctic ice, sea ice, solar influence etc. Much of what we have been told has been so terribly distorted that just a look at the data will reveal at least gross exaggeration. I think it is reasonable to think that mankind has contributed to the warming we have seen, i do not think that it is reasonable to be as utterly insane as Gore, Hansen and Schmidt (to name a few) because the data just doesn't backup the claims they have made and are making. At this point if it is put simply:
we have warmed by 0.8 degrees Celsius in 150 years. during that time the rate of release of CO2 has rapidly increased to the point where something like 80% of the CO2 released by mankind has come in the past 40 years. in spite of that we see that the earth has only warmed negligibly in this past decade (some datasets actually show cooling during the past 10 and even 15 years while the most favorable to AGW theory show extremely modest warming). Hurricanes have not increased at all, rate of sea level rise has actually slowed, tornadoes have not grown worse, snow cover has been fairly consistent with some of the snowiest winters coming in the past 4 or 5 years and many of the other melodramatic predictions have failed to materialize. the only thing that can be pointed to that fits the predictions somewhat is the rate of loss of ice in the arctic, but our data on that is too short to compare to earlier times.
