Waters of the World
The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole

There is a lot of tantalizing ideas in this book, which traces the construction of climate science through eight chapters dealing with different scientists and their work. Unfortunately, while there is a lot going on, it never really coheres. Dry chooses an interesting range of scientists to study,......more

I’m in an ecological problems/solutions class and so of course 90% of what we talk about is climate change related, but it’s all current topics. This book gave me way more of an appreciation of the years and multitudes that have brought us our current level of understanding surrounding climate. I di......more

Enjoyable series of historical vignettes on the (largely physical) basis of climate science.......more

You cannot study a snowflake profoundly without being led back by it step by step to the constitution of the sun It is thus throughout Nature All its parts are interdependent, and the study of any one part completely would really involve the study of all. - John Tyndall I am not a climate expert. I a......more

Climate science – the study of how and why Earth’s climate changes over space and time – first required an understanding that there is in fact such a thing as a global climate system, and that the water in our atmosphere, oceans, and ice sheets makes the primary links in this system. This book profil......more