Any textbook by Resnick &Halliday will cause all but the most determined to flee from physics forever. The only textbooks that I have found that are absolutely clear and simple in their explanations are those by Richard Feynman. They are slightly out of date at the modern edge, but accurate and...
Maybe I have missed something here, but I find nothing in any of these formulations that resembles a real world scenario. Climate is both local and global, with enormous local variation within a fairly stable global energy budget. Measures of forcing such as W/m^2 have no meaning in nature...