Beyond global warming : how numerical models revealed the secrets of climate change Syukuro Manabe is perhaps the leading pioneer of modern climate modeling. Beyond Global Warming is his compelling firsthand account of how the scientific community came to understand the human causes of climate change and how numerical models using the worlds most powerful computers have been instrumental to these vital discoveries. Joined here by atmospheric scientist Anthony Broccoli Manabe shows how climate models have been used as virtual laboratories for examining the complex planetary interactions of atmosphere ocean and land. Manabe and Broccoli use these studies as the basis for a broader discussion of human induced global warming and what the future may hold for a warming planet. They tell the stories of early trailblazers such as Svante Arrhenius the legendary Swedish scientist who created the first climate model of Earth more than a century ago and provide rare insights into Manabes own groundbreaking work over the past five decades. Expertly walking readers through key breakthroughs they explain why increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide has caused temperatures to rise in the troposphere yet fall in the stratosphere why the warming of the planets surface differs by hemisphere why drought is becoming more frequent in arid regions despite the global increase in precipitation and much more