The World's Easiest Science Lesson: Climate Physics
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From Buffon's calculations of the Earth's age to Manabe and Hasselman's climate models
Climate physicist Hasselmann's paradigm shift in science
In the age of climate crisis, science has the answer!
The 18th book in the series "Learning Science through Original Papers by Nobel Prize Winners," "Climate Physics," shows the process by which humanity has come to understand climate from a physical perspective, from Arrhenius's greenhouse effect calculations to Shukuro Manabe's climate model and Hasseltmann's probabilistic climate model.
From the geological imagination of ancient Greece, the theory of continental drift and the Ice Age, the discovery of the atmosphere and the study of clouds, to the birth of modern meteorology and weather forecasting, the vast history of climatology is presented in a fascinating physical context.
In particular, the paper by Shukuro Manabe and Hasselman, who jointly won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been included in its original form, allowing readers to experience the evolution of climate science firsthand.
Hasselman's research, which probabilistically explains climate uncertainty, serves as scientific evidence for today's climate crisis.
Climate physicist Hasselmann's paradigm shift in science
In the age of climate crisis, science has the answer!
The 18th book in the series "Learning Science through Original Papers by Nobel Prize Winners," "Climate Physics," shows the process by which humanity has come to understand climate from a physical perspective, from Arrhenius's greenhouse effect calculations to Shukuro Manabe's climate model and Hasseltmann's probabilistic climate model.
From the geological imagination of ancient Greece, the theory of continental drift and the Ice Age, the discovery of the atmosphere and the study of clouds, to the birth of modern meteorology and weather forecasting, the vast history of climatology is presented in a fascinating physical context.
In particular, the paper by Shukuro Manabe and Hasselman, who jointly won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, has been included in its original form, allowing readers to experience the evolution of climate science firsthand.
Hasselman's research, which probabilistically explains climate uncertainty, serves as scientific evidence for today's climate crisis.
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I hope you can understand the original papers of these genius scientists.
Hasselmann's Statistical Physics Approach to Climate: A Surprise Interview with Dr. Parisi, Nobel Prize Winner for Complex Systems Research
First Encounter _ The Birth and Evolution of Geology
In Search of the Roots of Geology: The Story of the Earth Begins in Ancient Greece
Unraveling the Earth's Secrets: The Journeys of Medieval and Renaissance Geologists
The Earth's Chronology Inscribed in the Strata - Steno and the Law of Strata Superposition
How old is the Earth? _Buffon Calculate the Age of the Earth
Finding the Earth's Origin in Water - Werner's Mercury Theory
The Earth is Boiling _ The Martian Theory and Hutton's Uniformitarianism
Second Encounter _ People Who Solved the Earth's Puzzle
The Continents Move: Wegener and the Birth of Continental Drift
People Who Imagined Pangaea _ In Search of the Origins of Continental Drift
Scientists Discover Earth's Exposed Seismic Waves
Digging into the Earth's Interior: Scientists Discover Discontinuities
Discovering the Heart of the Earth: Inge Lehmann, Who Uncovered the Inner Core
The Earth is a Puzzle: The Secrets of the Earth Through the Eyes of Plate Tectonics
Third Encounter _ Meteorology, Capturing Weather with Science
Philosophers Who Read the Sky _ Meteorology in Ancient Greece
From Antichthon to Clouds: A Journey Through Medieval Meteorology
Measuring the Weight of Air - Torricelli and the Discovery of Atmospheric Pressure
Proving the Weight of Air _ Pascal and Goericke's Atmospheric Pressure Experiment
The Truth Beyond the Clouds _ Saussure, the Pioneer of Atmospheric Science Who Climbed the Alps
Naming the Clouds: Howard's View of the Sky
Hotter Cities, Cloudier Skies: Heat Islands and Smog
Fourth Encounter: Discovering the Atmosphere and Scientists Above the Clouds
People Above the Clouds: Hot Air Balloons and the Birth of Atmospheric Science
The Line Dividing the Sky: The Story of the Discovery of the Stratosphere
The Invisible Boundaries of the Sky - From the Ozone Layer to the Thermosphere
Why is the sky divided into layers? _The scientific structure of the atmosphere
Fifth Meeting _ The History of Meteorology and Its Pioneers
The Visible Language of Wind _ Beaufort, Classifying the Wind
From God's Wrath to Scientific Prediction: A History of Typhoon Research
The Birth of the Science of Reading the Weather: The History of Weather Forecasting
In Search of the Roots of Modern Meteorology _ FitzRoy, the Father of Weather Forecasting
Sixth Encounter _ Science in Uncertainty, Inside Hasselman's Thesis
Will Rain Follow the Plow? _The Evolution of Climate Change Awareness
The Traces of Glaciers: Louis Agassiz and the Birth of the Ice Age Theory
Stagnation of Heat-Trapped Air - The Scientific Origins of the Greenhouse Effect
The Hidden Pioneer of the Greenhouse Effect: Eunice Foote's Brilliant Discovery
Predicting Climate Change with Physics: Manabe and Climate Model Experiments
Predicting Climate with Probabilities: Hasselman's Uncovered Order in Uncertainty
In addition to the meeting
Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity _ Manabe's paper in English
Stochastic Climate Models Part I.
Theory _Hasselman's paper in English
Concluding our meeting with a great paper
Books and papers referenced for this book
Greek letters used in formulas
Introducing the Nobel Prize winners in Physics
I hope you can understand the original papers of these genius scientists.
Hasselmann's Statistical Physics Approach to Climate: A Surprise Interview with Dr. Parisi, Nobel Prize Winner for Complex Systems Research
First Encounter _ The Birth and Evolution of Geology
In Search of the Roots of Geology: The Story of the Earth Begins in Ancient Greece
Unraveling the Earth's Secrets: The Journeys of Medieval and Renaissance Geologists
The Earth's Chronology Inscribed in the Strata - Steno and the Law of Strata Superposition
How old is the Earth? _Buffon Calculate the Age of the Earth
Finding the Earth's Origin in Water - Werner's Mercury Theory
The Earth is Boiling _ The Martian Theory and Hutton's Uniformitarianism
Second Encounter _ People Who Solved the Earth's Puzzle
The Continents Move: Wegener and the Birth of Continental Drift
People Who Imagined Pangaea _ In Search of the Origins of Continental Drift
Scientists Discover Earth's Exposed Seismic Waves
Digging into the Earth's Interior: Scientists Discover Discontinuities
Discovering the Heart of the Earth: Inge Lehmann, Who Uncovered the Inner Core
The Earth is a Puzzle: The Secrets of the Earth Through the Eyes of Plate Tectonics
Third Encounter _ Meteorology, Capturing Weather with Science
Philosophers Who Read the Sky _ Meteorology in Ancient Greece
From Antichthon to Clouds: A Journey Through Medieval Meteorology
Measuring the Weight of Air - Torricelli and the Discovery of Atmospheric Pressure
Proving the Weight of Air _ Pascal and Goericke's Atmospheric Pressure Experiment
The Truth Beyond the Clouds _ Saussure, the Pioneer of Atmospheric Science Who Climbed the Alps
Naming the Clouds: Howard's View of the Sky
Hotter Cities, Cloudier Skies: Heat Islands and Smog
Fourth Encounter: Discovering the Atmosphere and Scientists Above the Clouds
People Above the Clouds: Hot Air Balloons and the Birth of Atmospheric Science
The Line Dividing the Sky: The Story of the Discovery of the Stratosphere
The Invisible Boundaries of the Sky - From the Ozone Layer to the Thermosphere
Why is the sky divided into layers? _The scientific structure of the atmosphere
Fifth Meeting _ The History of Meteorology and Its Pioneers
The Visible Language of Wind _ Beaufort, Classifying the Wind
From God's Wrath to Scientific Prediction: A History of Typhoon Research
The Birth of the Science of Reading the Weather: The History of Weather Forecasting
In Search of the Roots of Modern Meteorology _ FitzRoy, the Father of Weather Forecasting
Sixth Encounter _ Science in Uncertainty, Inside Hasselman's Thesis
Will Rain Follow the Plow? _The Evolution of Climate Change Awareness
The Traces of Glaciers: Louis Agassiz and the Birth of the Ice Age Theory
Stagnation of Heat-Trapped Air - The Scientific Origins of the Greenhouse Effect
The Hidden Pioneer of the Greenhouse Effect: Eunice Foote's Brilliant Discovery
Predicting Climate Change with Physics: Manabe and Climate Model Experiments
Predicting Climate with Probabilities: Hasselman's Uncovered Order in Uncertainty
In addition to the meeting
Thermal Equilibrium of the Atmosphere with a Given Distribution of Relative Humidity _ Manabe's paper in English
Stochastic Climate Models Part I.
Theory _Hasselman's paper in English
Concluding our meeting with a great paper
Books and papers referenced for this book
Greek letters used in formulas
Introducing the Nobel Prize winners in Physics
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Into the book
Aristotle's Meteorology is the world's first book on meteorology.
This book consists of four volumes. In the book, Aristotle argued that the universe is spherical and adopted the four basic elements of water, fire, earth, and air.
--- p.80
Tindle built precise equipment to measure how much infrared (thermal radiation) different gases absorb.
As a result, nitrogen and oxygen absorbed very little infrared radiation, while carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane absorbed a lot of it.
--- p.171
Manabe's model simplifies the complex climate system while retaining the core physical laws.
Assuming that relative humidity is constant, the interactions between evaporation and condensation of water vapor, convection and radiation, and atmospheric pressure and temperature were precisely calculated.
It was the first attempt to describe the Earth in a formula.
--- p.177
Manabe wasn't simply predicting the temperature.
He opened up the possibility that science could predict the future.
And that model has become the basis for modern climate policy for decades, providing scientific grounding to the voices of citizens around the world demanding climate action.
--- p.177
Hasselman was a scientist who had been looking at climate for decades.
He noted that weather can sway climate.
The daily, unpredictable weather builds up and eventually creates a slow and heavy climate.
He tried to express this process in the language of probability and mathematics.
Hasselmann believed that weather was fast-changing and random, while climate was slow-changing and an average result of weather.
--- p.180
We can't know the world perfectly, but we can know it well enough.
Hasselmann is a man who found order in the uncertainty of climate.
He said this upon receiving the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics.
“The climate problem is not a matter of technology, it is a matter of will.
We already know.
Now it's time to act."
This book consists of four volumes. In the book, Aristotle argued that the universe is spherical and adopted the four basic elements of water, fire, earth, and air.
--- p.80
Tindle built precise equipment to measure how much infrared (thermal radiation) different gases absorb.
As a result, nitrogen and oxygen absorbed very little infrared radiation, while carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane absorbed a lot of it.
--- p.171
Manabe's model simplifies the complex climate system while retaining the core physical laws.
Assuming that relative humidity is constant, the interactions between evaporation and condensation of water vapor, convection and radiation, and atmospheric pressure and temperature were precisely calculated.
It was the first attempt to describe the Earth in a formula.
--- p.177
Manabe wasn't simply predicting the temperature.
He opened up the possibility that science could predict the future.
And that model has become the basis for modern climate policy for decades, providing scientific grounding to the voices of citizens around the world demanding climate action.
--- p.177
Hasselman was a scientist who had been looking at climate for decades.
He noted that weather can sway climate.
The daily, unpredictable weather builds up and eventually creates a slow and heavy climate.
He tried to express this process in the language of probability and mathematics.
Hasselmann believed that weather was fast-changing and random, while climate was slow-changing and an average result of weather.
--- p.180
We can't know the world perfectly, but we can know it well enough.
Hasselmann is a man who found order in the uncertainty of climate.
He said this upon receiving the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics.
“The climate problem is not a matter of technology, it is a matter of will.
We already know.
Now it's time to act."
--- p.184
Publisher's Review
★ Recommended by the National Science Teachers Association ★ Selected as a book for Park Mun-ho's Special Lecture on the World of Natural Science
★ A must-read for those planning to pursue a science or engineering degree ★ Includes English versions of papers by Nobel Prize winners
From weather to climate, and then to physics
Observing and recording the weather was essential for agriculture and survival in ancient civilizations.
However, a mere listing of fragmentary weather data could not explain the enormous changes on Earth.
Since Aristotle attempted to systematically explain lightning, hail, and wind in his Meteorology, mankind has gradually turned its attention to the long-term, structural phenomenon called 'climate'.
In the 19th century, the theory of ice ages, the theory of continental drift, and the discovery of the atmosphere revealed that climate was not simply a whim of nature but could be scientifically explained.
"Climate Physics" traces the origins of climate research step by step, and narratively shows how climate, once considered merely a "sum of weather," became established as an independent field of physics.
This process also reveals how the foundation for explaining the climate crisis in scientific terms was established.
People who read the climate with mathematics
Arrhenius's 1896 paper calculating the quantitative relationship between carbon dioxide and global temperature was a landmark event in the history of climate science.
He estimated how much the average global temperature could rise if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations doubled, which became the starting point for today's core concept of "climate sensitivity."
John Tyndall then experimentally determined the infrared absorption rates of atmospheric components, establishing that carbon dioxide and water vapor were heat-trapping "greenhouse gases."
In the mid-20th century, Shukuro Manabe brought climate prediction to precise physics with his radiation-convection equilibrium model.
『Climate Physics』 has included the original texts of these papers, allowing readers to encounter traces of actual scientists' calculations and experiments, rather than mere theoretical explanations.
It vividly illustrates how formulas and data have transformed humanity's perception of the climate and why climate modeling is the basis for today's policy decisions.
Hasselman turned uncertainty into predictability
“The climate is not unpredictable.
“It is probabilistically predictable.” This declaration by Hasselman changed the paradigm of climate physics.
He demonstrated that even though the weather exhibits temporary and chaotic fluctuations, its average, long-term patterns can be read using probabilistic models.
His 'probabilistic climate model' opened the way to mathematically addressing the complex intertwining of the atmosphere, ocean, solar radiation, and land systems, ultimately laying the foundation for scientifically explaining and predicting the climate crisis facing humanity.
In accepting the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, he once again emphasized that “the climate problem is not a problem of technology, but a problem of will.”
This message clearly demonstrates that scientific insights do not remain merely knowledge within the laboratory, but can also serve as warnings and suggestions for the future of society and humanity.
Climate Physics captures Hasselman's thesis in its entirety, allowing readers to experience his mathematical ideas and scientific courage firsthand.
A liberal arts book that connects science and society
"Climate Physics" examines the history of scientific discoveries surrounding climate, connecting them to a social context.
Professor Jeong Wan-sang's characteristic question-and-answer style helps readers understand climate systems and formulas in an easy-to-understand manner, and the questions posed by the "physics group" make complex climate models and thermodynamic laws accessible in everyday language.
This book goes beyond simply imparting knowledge; it asks what choices we should make in the age of climate crisis.
The scientific insights contained in Arrhenius's greenhouse effect calculations, Manabe's atmospheric model, and Hasselman's probabilistic climate model are all warnings and suggestions for the future of humanity.
In particular, Hasselman's statement that "the climate problem is not a question of technology, but of will" clearly demonstrates the power of science when combined with social responsibility.
The depth and sophistication of the series is also supported by evaluations from external experts.
The "Easiest Science Class in the World" series has been honored with consecutive selections for Dr. Park Moon-ho's "Thursday Special Lecture on the World of Natural Science."
The fact that Volume 2, "Radiation and the Elements," and Volume 8, "Antiparticles," were accepted consecutively means that both their academic value and educational suitability were recognized.
"Climate Physics" is a guide for all readers interested in the climate crisis, including young people and science and engineering aspirants.
It urges us to “go beyond knowledge and act,” and establishes itself as a true liberal arts textbook that connects science and society.
★ A must-read for those planning to pursue a science or engineering degree ★ Includes English versions of papers by Nobel Prize winners
From weather to climate, and then to physics
Observing and recording the weather was essential for agriculture and survival in ancient civilizations.
However, a mere listing of fragmentary weather data could not explain the enormous changes on Earth.
Since Aristotle attempted to systematically explain lightning, hail, and wind in his Meteorology, mankind has gradually turned its attention to the long-term, structural phenomenon called 'climate'.
In the 19th century, the theory of ice ages, the theory of continental drift, and the discovery of the atmosphere revealed that climate was not simply a whim of nature but could be scientifically explained.
"Climate Physics" traces the origins of climate research step by step, and narratively shows how climate, once considered merely a "sum of weather," became established as an independent field of physics.
This process also reveals how the foundation for explaining the climate crisis in scientific terms was established.
People who read the climate with mathematics
Arrhenius's 1896 paper calculating the quantitative relationship between carbon dioxide and global temperature was a landmark event in the history of climate science.
He estimated how much the average global temperature could rise if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations doubled, which became the starting point for today's core concept of "climate sensitivity."
John Tyndall then experimentally determined the infrared absorption rates of atmospheric components, establishing that carbon dioxide and water vapor were heat-trapping "greenhouse gases."
In the mid-20th century, Shukuro Manabe brought climate prediction to precise physics with his radiation-convection equilibrium model.
『Climate Physics』 has included the original texts of these papers, allowing readers to encounter traces of actual scientists' calculations and experiments, rather than mere theoretical explanations.
It vividly illustrates how formulas and data have transformed humanity's perception of the climate and why climate modeling is the basis for today's policy decisions.
Hasselman turned uncertainty into predictability
“The climate is not unpredictable.
“It is probabilistically predictable.” This declaration by Hasselman changed the paradigm of climate physics.
He demonstrated that even though the weather exhibits temporary and chaotic fluctuations, its average, long-term patterns can be read using probabilistic models.
His 'probabilistic climate model' opened the way to mathematically addressing the complex intertwining of the atmosphere, ocean, solar radiation, and land systems, ultimately laying the foundation for scientifically explaining and predicting the climate crisis facing humanity.
In accepting the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics, he once again emphasized that “the climate problem is not a problem of technology, but a problem of will.”
This message clearly demonstrates that scientific insights do not remain merely knowledge within the laboratory, but can also serve as warnings and suggestions for the future of society and humanity.
Climate Physics captures Hasselman's thesis in its entirety, allowing readers to experience his mathematical ideas and scientific courage firsthand.
A liberal arts book that connects science and society
"Climate Physics" examines the history of scientific discoveries surrounding climate, connecting them to a social context.
Professor Jeong Wan-sang's characteristic question-and-answer style helps readers understand climate systems and formulas in an easy-to-understand manner, and the questions posed by the "physics group" make complex climate models and thermodynamic laws accessible in everyday language.
This book goes beyond simply imparting knowledge; it asks what choices we should make in the age of climate crisis.
The scientific insights contained in Arrhenius's greenhouse effect calculations, Manabe's atmospheric model, and Hasselman's probabilistic climate model are all warnings and suggestions for the future of humanity.
In particular, Hasselman's statement that "the climate problem is not a question of technology, but of will" clearly demonstrates the power of science when combined with social responsibility.
The depth and sophistication of the series is also supported by evaluations from external experts.
The "Easiest Science Class in the World" series has been honored with consecutive selections for Dr. Park Moon-ho's "Thursday Special Lecture on the World of Natural Science."
The fact that Volume 2, "Radiation and the Elements," and Volume 8, "Antiparticles," were accepted consecutively means that both their academic value and educational suitability were recognized.
"Climate Physics" is a guide for all readers interested in the climate crisis, including young people and science and engineering aspirants.
It urges us to “go beyond knowledge and act,” and establishes itself as a true liberal arts textbook that connects science and society.
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- Date of issue: September 15, 2025
- Page count, weight, size: 234 pages | 358g | 152*210*14mm
- ISBN13: 9791193357972
- ISBN10: 1193357977
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