The Weather of the Future : Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet Paperback - 2011
by Heidi Cullen
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- Title The Weather of the Future : Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet
- Author Heidi Cullen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Date 2011
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # G006172694XI5N00
- ISBN 9780061726941 / 006172694X
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.99 x 5.32 x 0.86 in (20.29 x 13.51 x 2.18 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Weather forecasting, Climatic changes - Forecasting
- Dewey Decimal Code 551.63
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From the rear cover
Dr. Heidi Cullen, one of the world's foremost climatologists and environmental journalists, offers a new way of viewing the climate-change phenomenon, not as some future event but as something happening right now in our own backyard. In this groundbreaking, provocative work, Dr. Cullen combines the latest scientific research with state-of-the-art climate-model projections to create climate-change scenarios for seven of the most at-risk locations around the globe.
From the Central Valley of California, where coming droughts will jeopardize the entire state's water supply, to New York City, whose infrastructure is extremely vulnerable to even a relatively weak Category 3 hurricane, to Greenland, where warmer temperatures will give access to mineral wealth buried beneath ice sheets for millennia, Cullen illustrates how, if left unabated, climate change will transform every corner of the world by midcentury--and no two regions will be affected in quite the same way.