William H. Calvin, Ph.D., is a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle.
I’m a prof. emeritus of the University of Washington School of Medicine, originally trained in physics (BA) and physiology & biophysics (PhD). I’ve been following abrupt climate change since 1984 and wrote a cover story for the Atlantic Monthly in 1998, “The great climate flip-flop,” which was the first major magazine story on the subject. Having found that biophysics prepared me well for following geophysics, I have been turning my attention to climate change. And since I’ve written 13 books for general readers about science, I am now focusing on writing a few about the climate mess we’re in. My 2002 book, that won the Phi Beta Kappa book award for science, is about climage change effects on human evolution during the ice ages: A Brain for All Seasons.
Next up is GLOBAL FEVER: How to Treat Climate Change (University of Chicago Press, pub date 2/08). The book that I wrote simultaneously, to keep myself cheerful, is ALMOST US: Portraits of the Apes
