(BackReAction) – Sabine Hossenfelder:
Lawrence Krauss’ new book “The Physics of Climate Change” is a well-curated collection of facts and data with explanations that are just about technical enough to understand the science without getting bogged down in details. The book covers historical and contemporary records of carbon dioxide levels and temperature, greenhouse gases and how their atmospheric concentrations change the energy balance, how we can tell one cause of climate change from another, and impacts we have seen and can expect to see, from sea level rise to tipping points.
To me, learning some climate science has been a series of realizations that it’s more difficult than it looks at first sight. …
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