John D. Aber is university professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of New Hampshire, where he also served as vice president for research and as provost. He lives in Durham, NH.
“As we enter an era where both politics and our daily lives will be
powerfully affected by climate change, everyone needs this
science-based understanding of weather, climate, and climate change
to understand the world around them.”—James Gustave Speth, author
of They Knew: The US Federal Government’s Fifty-Year Role in
Causing the Climate Crisis and Red Sky at Morning: America and the
Crisis of the Global Environment
“Aber’s incisive book explores how we measure, understand, and
predict weather (with a time frame of hours to days), and climate
and its changes (years to centuries). Scientifically astute, policy
relevant, hopeful, and a joy to read.”—Jerry Melillo, Ecosystem
Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
“John Aber makes weather, climate, and climate change fascinating.
His clear language and visuals are the best foundation I have seen
for understanding the earth system now, and how it is likely to
change in the future.”—Indy Burke, Carl W. Knoblauch, Jr. Dean,
Yale School of the Environment
“With authority and a delightfully conversational style, Less Heat,
More Light presents important insights for our time into the nature
of weather, climate, and the history of scientific
discovery.”—David Foster, author of A Meeting of Land and Sea:
Nature and the Future of Martha’s Vineyard
“John Aber’s thoroughly enjoyable book explains the nature and
history of climate and the factors driving its change. His clear
and knowledgeable text will enhance broad public engagement in the
most important crisis of our time.”—Jo Handelsman, director,
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery; former associate director for
science, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and
author, A World Without Soil: The Past, Present, and Precarious
Future of the Earth Beneath Our Feet
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