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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 unkno...

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Main Author: Cullen, Heidi.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : HarperCollins, c2010.
Subjects:
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Weather forecasting.
Climatic changes > Forecasting.
Global environmental change > Forecasting.
Global warming > Forecasting.
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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.

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