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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Table of Contents:
- 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.
