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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The weather of the future

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

503638578

Responsibility statement

Heidi Cullen

Sub title

heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet

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

Table Of Contents

Climate & weather together -- Seeing climate change in our past -- Science of prediction -- Extreme weather autopsies & the forty-year forecast -- The Sahel, Africa -- Great Barrier Reef, Australia -- Central Valley, California -- Arctic, part one : Inuit Nunaat, Canada -- 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

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Scenes from a climate-changed planet

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