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The weather of the future : heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet / Heidi Cullen.

By: New York : HarperCollins, c2010Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 329 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780061726880
Other title:
  • Scenes from a climate-changed planet
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QC903 .C85 2010
Contents:
Climate and weather together -- Seeing climate change in our past -- The science of prediction -- Extreme weather autopsies and the forty-year forecast -- The Sahel, Africa -- The Great Barrier Reef, Australia -- Central Valley, California -- The Arctic, part one : Inuit Nunaat, Canada -- The Arctic, part two : Greenland -- Dhaka, Bangladesh -- New York, New York -- Epilogue : The trillionth ton -- Appendix 1. United States climate change almanac -- Appendix 2. New York statistics -- Appendix 3. The world's most vulnerable places.
Summary: From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC903 .C85 2010 1 Available 50583010340994
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC903 .C85 2010 2 Available 50583020005074
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate and weather together -- Seeing climate change in our past -- The science of prediction -- Extreme weather autopsies and the forty-year forecast -- The Sahel, Africa -- The Great Barrier Reef, Australia -- Central Valley, California -- The Arctic, part one : Inuit Nunaat, Canada -- The Arctic, part two : Greenland -- Dhaka, Bangladesh -- New York, New York -- Epilogue : The trillionth ton -- Appendix 1. United States climate change almanac -- Appendix 2. New York statistics -- Appendix 3. The world's most vulnerable places.

From one of America's foremost experts on weather and climate change and a senior research scientist with Climate Central, comes this work, a book that predicts what different parts of the world will look like in the year 2050 if current levels of carbon emissions are maintained.

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