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

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.--[source unknown]

Record details

ISBN: 9780061992421 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
ISBN: 0061992429 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xviii, 329 p.) : ill., maps.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.