The 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 you'll 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,
Booker Prize-winning author of Solar and Machines Like Me
"Lawrence Krauss has written the ideal book for anyone interested in
understanding the science of global warming. It is at once elegant,
rigorous, and timely."--Elizabeth Kolbert, staff writer, The New
Yorker, and Pulitzer prize-winning 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. Krauss's 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 She's Not There
"Everything on climate change that I've seen is either dumbed down and
bossy or written for other climate scientists. I've 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 book's eloquent exposition of the science and the threats should
enlighten all readers and motivate them to an urgent concern about our
planet's future." --Lord Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal, former president
of the Royal Society, author of On the Future: Prospects for Humanity
