A Billion Butterflies: This book drops truth bombs on climate change

How an old deal over a supercomputer explains the politics behind climate science today

A Billion Butterflies: A Life in Climate and Chaos Theory

by Dr Jagadish Shukla

Published by 

Macmillan 

288 pages   ₹699

 

If United States President Donald Trump’s imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on all Indian imports — to penalise India for its protected economy and for buying military equipment and energy from Russia — seems like bullying, let us pause to consider what happened when the US negotiated a deal with India in 1985. This event from four decades ago seems instructive for anyone who believes that the relationship between the two countries has suddenly hit a new low.

 

Jagadish Shukla, a professor of