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

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.--[source unknown]

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Main Author: Cullen, Heidi
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperCollins, c2010.
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245 1 4 |a The weather of the future :  |b heat waves, extreme storms, and other scenes from a climate-changed planet /  |c Heidi Cullen. 
260 |a New York :  |b HarperCollins,  |c c2010. 
300 |a xviii, 329 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- 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. 
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