Books: McEwan takes on global warming by way of a corpulent philanderer - Salt Lake Tribune- global warming news

He's a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, a sought-after guest on the international lecture circuit and an emerging authority in the effort to reverse climate change. This eminence of science drinks too much and eats too much; he's a solipsist and a veteran of five failed marriages and countless affairs; he lies often and with ease. Besides, "Stockholm's magic dust" is still paying dividends in the form of sinecures and invitations to discuss the Conflation at various academic conferences in London and beyond. Most of the predicaments Beard finds himself in are of his own doing, a point McEwan makes note of later in the book. In Solar , McEwan proves himself comfortable not just with comedy and suspense but with science as well, offering a plausibly cynical take on how some academics might find a global crisis good for business. Still, our professor gets involved only when the Blair government decides it needs a rainmaker to lead a new center for basic research on the issue.

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