The author graduated with a major in physics from Sydney University in the 1960's. He won a scholarship to attend Prof Harry Messel's Summer School of Science and developed a love of physics which carried over into many years of private study and tutoring in the field. More recently he studied climate science in considerable detail and came to an understanding of the processes that are widely misunderstood in the field of climatology. He has had published a paper "Radiated Energy and The Second Law of Thermodynamics" referred to in the book, and has also written several articles relating to climate change.