Readers at BH probably don't need to be reminded that the official science on extreme weather and climate change is not nearly as scary as the popular perception of it is. In some ways then, Roger Pielke Jr's slim tome about disasters and climate change might be seen as entirely superfluous to requirements, but in fact it would be a mistake to overlook a book that goes well beyond a simple expounding of the science, but looks also at the political and social background to it.
For example, the first chapter, entitled 'Climate’s Legitimacy Wars', is probably worth the purchase price on its own, featuring a series of more or less hair-raising anecdotes about scientists and politicians behaving badly: everything from misrepresenting the science to lobbying others to misrepresent it to attacking those who failed to misrepresent it. The story of a mystery graph in the IPCC's Fourth Assessment was fascinating.
Then there is a very useful chapter that pins down exactly what the IPCC means by "climate change" (it doesn't necessarily imply "manmade") and explains how they attribute any climate change to mankind.
As ever with Pielke, it's written in a clear, straightforward fashion that makes it easy for anyone to follow. It is rock solid on the science. It's also much handier to carry around with you than the IPCC report.
Strongly recommended.