Earth in Flames
How an Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs and How We Can Avoid a Similar Fate From Nuclear Winter
$67.19
- Hardcover
280 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2025
Summary
Sixty-six million years ago, an asteroid as large as Mt. Everest hit what is now the Yucatan Peninsula at a speed ten times faster than the fastest rifle bullet. Debris from the impact blew into space, re-entered the atmosphere as a swarm of shooting stars that burned the global forests and grasslands, leaving behind a thin global layer containing rock from the asteroid and from Mexico, and smoke from the fires. This layer marks one of the greatest extinctions in Earth history, including not …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197799703 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0197799701 |
| Author: | Alan Robock, Owen Brian Toon |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 280 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 167mm x 23mm |
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About The Author
Alan Robock
Owen Brian Toon is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the winner of AGU’s Roger Revelle Medal and AMS’s Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal. He was recognized by the United Nations Environmental Program for contributing to the U.N.’s 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for Climate Studies and co-won the Future of Life Institute Award in 2022 for the discovery of Nuclear Winter.
Alan Robock is a Distinguished Professor of climate science in the Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1970 with a B.A. in Meteorology, and from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an S.M. in 1974 and Ph.D. in 1977, both in Meteorology. Before graduate school, he served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines. He was a professor at the University of Maryland from 1977 to 1997, and the State Climatologist of Maryland from 1991 to 1997, before coming to Rutgers in 1998. Professor Robock was a Lead Author of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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