A Billion Butterflies

THIS ITEM IS AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER ONLY AND WILL BE RELEASED ON 22 APRIL 2025.

A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory

Slumdog Millionaire meets An Inconvenient Truth in this amazing memoir by the Nobel Prize-winning man behind modern weather prediction

Consider a world without weather prediction. How would we know what to wear tomorrow? When to evacuate people before a natural disaster? Because of renowned climate scientist Dr. Jagadish Shukla, we can predict the weather forecast beyond 10 days. Born in India with no electricity or formal schools, he attended classes that were held in a cow shed, surrounded by amid overwhelming monsoons and unpredictable crop yields. His drive brought him to the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, then to MIT and Princeton. In the 70s he upended beliefs about weather prediction, then worked to export his work around the world so that governments and scientists could better understand all weather-induced natural disasters. His work allows us to feed more people, save lives, and hold on to hope in a warming world.

Paired with his philanthropic endeavors and dedication to the field, Dr. Shukla has been lauded internationally for his achievements, including being lead author of a panel which shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore for his governmental research on climate change, A Billion Butterflies is a wondrous insider’s account of climate science and an unbelievable memoir of his life. Understanding dynamical seasonal prediction will change the way you experience a thunderstorm or interpret a forecast; understanding its origins and the remarkable story of the man who discovered it will change the way you see our world.