The Heat Is On

THE WEATHER MAKERS

How Man is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth

By Tim Flannery

Atlantic Monthly. 357 pp. $24

FIELD NOTES FROM A CATASTROPHE

Man, Nature, and Climate Change

By Elizabeth Kolbert

Bloomsbury. 210 pp. $22.95

THE WINDS OF CHANGE

Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations

By Eugene Linden

Simon & Schuster. 302 pp. $26