Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World

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A catastrophe for catastrophists perhaps, but most people would consider more life in the oceans actually a good thing. She has been a science columnist for the Wall Street Journal since 2017 and she is the author of the bestselling Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, Bubbles: A Ladybird Expert Book, and Blue Machine: how the ocean shapes our world. Helen has a unique gift being able to explain complex subjects in a few, carefully selected words for those of us with less well connected synapses.

From the ancient Polynesians who navigated the Pacific by reading the waves to permanent residents of the deep such as the Greenland shark that can live for hundreds of years, she explains the vast currents, invisible ocean walls and underwater waterfalls that all have their place in the ocean's complex, interlinked system.Gaia Vince, science journalist, broadcaster and author of Nomad Century All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine. Czerski’s fascinating new book casts the ocean as an extraordinary giant engine, and helps us grasp its complex physics and its key role in climate change.

As a physicist, she studies the bubbles generated by breaking waves in the ocean to understand their influence on weather and climate.Reading this book has made me realise just how much the oceans do to keep our planet at the right temperature for life to exist and function. Timely, elegant, and passionately argued, The Blue Machine presents a fresh perspective on what it means to be a citizen of an ocean planet. It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. The author of The Blue Machine and Storm in a Teacup, she is a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, writing regularly about the physics of everyday life. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.