Storm Surge: Hurricane Sandy, Our Changing Climate and Extreme Weather of the Past and Future

✍ Scribed by Sobel, Adam

• Publisher: HarperCollins;Harper Wave
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 955 KB
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 006230478X

✦ Synopsis

Examines the devastating and unprecedented events of Hurricane Sandy, using it to explain the Earth's changing climate and how to protect cities and coastal areas from the effects of huge storms.;Part 1. The storm. Genesis -- MJO -- Monday, October 22 -- NAO -- Tuesday, October 23 -- Deadly boring : the hurricane prone -- Hurricane science 101 -- Wednesday, October 24 -- Winter weather -- Thursday, October 25 -- Where weather forecasts came from -- Friday, October 26 -- Fujiwhara -- Saturday, October 27 -- Communicating the threat : the label on the can versus the fine print -- Preparations -- Sunday, October 28 -- Monday, October 29 -- The damage -- The toll -- Immediate aftermath -- Part 2. What does it mean, and what should we do? The climate is warming -- The sea is rising -- Zeeland -- Hurricanes and climate -- Barriers and beaches since 1938 -- In harm's way -- What happens now?