Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
xviii, 329 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
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. |
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. |
Subject |
Climatic changes -- Forecasting.
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Weather forecasting.
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Global environmental change -- Forecasting.
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Global warming -- Forecasting.
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ISBN |
9780061726880 hardback $25.99 |
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0061726885 hardback |
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