{"product_id":"the-physics-of-climate-change-9781642938166","title":"The Physics of Climate Change","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe first book to briefly and clearly present the science of climate change in a way that is accessible to laypeople  providing the perspective needed to understand and assess the foundations and predictions of climate change.  \"Brilliant and fundamental  this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency. Here youll find the facts  the processes  the physics of our complex and changing climate  but delivered with eloquence and urgency. Lawrence Krauss writes with a clarity that transcends mere politics. Prose and poetry were never better bedfellows.\" --Ian McEwan \"The ideal book for understanding the science of global warming..at once elegant  rigorous  and timely.\" --Elizabeth Kolbert  Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Sixth Extinction  \"A brief  brilliant  and charming summary of what physicists know about climate change and how they learned it.\" --Sheldon Glashow  Nobel Laureate in Physics  Metcalf Distinguished Professor Emeritus  Boston University  \"The distinguished scientist Lawrence Krauss turns his penetrating gaze on the most pressing existential threat facing our world: climate change. It is brimming with information lucidly analysed. Such hope as there is lies in science  and a physicist of Dr. Krausss imaginative versatility is unusually qualified to offer it.\" --Richard Dawkins  author of The Blind Watchmaker and Science in the Soul  \"Lucid and gripping  this study of the most severe challenge humans have ever faced leads the reader from the basic physics of climate change to recognition of the damage that humans have already caused and on to the prospects that lie ahead if we do not change course soon.\" --Noam Chomsky  Laureate Professor  University of Arizona  author of Internationalism or Extinction?  \"Lawrence Krauss tells the story of climate change with erudition  urgency  and passion. It is our great good luck that one of our most brilliant scientists is also such a gifted writer. This book will change the way we think about the future.\" --Jennifer Finney Boylan  author of Good Boy and Shes Not There  \"Everything on climate change that Ive seen is either dumbed down and bossy or written for other climate scientists. Ive been looking for a book that can let me  a layperson  understand the science. This book does just what I was looking for. It is important.\" --Penn Jillette  Magician  author of Presto! and God  No!  \"The renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss makes the science behind one of the most important issues of our time accessible to all.\" --Richard C. J. Somerville  Distinguished Professor Emeritus  Scripps Institution of Oceanography  University of California  San Diego  \"Lawrence Krauss is a fine physicist  a talented writer  and a scientist deeply engaged with public affairs. His book deserves wide readership. The books eloquent exposition of the science and the threats should enlighten all readers and motivate them to an urgent concern about our planets future.\" --Lord Martin Rees  Astronomer Royal  former president of the Royal Society  author of On the Future: Prospects for Humanity\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45657664389173,"sku":"ByrdShop_1642938165","price":22.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781642938166.jpg?v=1782050326","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-physics-of-climate-change-9781642938166","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}