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

✍ Scribed by Heidi Cullen

• Publisher: HarperCollins, Publishers Group UK [distributor]
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 511 KB
• Edition: Heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York, Enfield
• ISBN-13: 9785889680680

✦ Synopsis

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.;Your weather is your climate. Climate and weather together ; Seeing climate change in our past ; The science of prediction ; Extreme weather autopsies and the forty-year forecast -- The weather of the future. 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 -- The trillionth ton -- Appendix 1. United States climate change almanac -- Appendix 2. New York statistics -- Appendix 3. The world's most vulnerable places.

✦ Subjects

Climatic changes -- Forecasting