The weather of the future : heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet / Heidi Cullen.
New York : HarperCollins, c2010Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 329 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780061726880
- Scenes from a climate-changed planet
- QC903 .C85 2010
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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.