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The Physics of Climate Change

Written by: Lawrence M. Krauss
Narrated by: Lawrence M. Krauss
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Audiobook includes a special 30-minute interview with the author.

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)

"The ideal book for understanding the science of global warming..at once elegant, rigorous, and timely." (Elizabeth Kolbert, 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)

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Please listen to this book! Simply amazing!

It's present facts, not opinions. It's a wonderful read/listen whether you are new to this information or just revisiting specifics. Just as strength would have been invaluable in the stone age, this is the kind of knowledge that's invaluable in today's and future world.

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An objective book on climate change

There is no political spin to this book, which is hard to find in a book about climate change.

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Excellent

Really enlightening. Refreshing to evaluate the scientific principles with minimal reference to political bias. Will listen again after printing the PDF.

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A concise and solid read on a critical issue!

If you are a person who would like to be informed on one of the most divisive and important issues of our time, this short book will prove valuable. Lawrence Krauss is a man how knows his physics, and has made important contributions to theoretical cosmology. Living up to his reputation as a renowned explainer, he hits all the important talking points and clearly outlines the shorter and longer-term consequences of our collective inaction—or inadequate action. As always, we are advised to look carefully to the evidence and, in this synopsis, one cannot help but be impressed by the degree of effort and rigor that has gone into the science of climate study, measurement, and prediction. Yes, Krauss’s “The Physics of Climate Change” is an important addition to the catalogue of must-reads, for those who feel a duty to be well informed of the critical issues of our day. And, to quote a phrase from the book, it might be just the thing to “shock you out of your complacency” at a time when your voice is needed in the cause of right-action at the individual, community, national, and international level. Clearly, we are all in this together—and every action that I, you, your kids, and your neighborhood can take, to turn the tide, is a small victory for humanity and our co-traveler species. Read it and act.

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