The Weather of the Future

by Cullen, Heidi

• ISBN13: 9780061726941
• ISBN10: 006172694X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-07-19
• Publisher: Perennial

Summary

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.

Author Biography

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-mode! projections to create climate-change scenarios for seven of the most at-risk locations around the globe. DR. Heidi Cullen is a senior research scientist with Climate Central, a nonprofit climate news and research organization, and a visiting lecturer at Princeton University.

Table of Contents

List of Maps	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Your Weather Is Your Climate
Climate and Weather Together	p. 3
Seeing Climate Change in Our Past	p. 12
The Science of Prediction	p. 31
Extreme Weather Autopsies and the Forty-Year Forecast	p. 50
The Weather of the Future
The Sahel, Africa	p. 63
The Great Barrier Reef, Australia	p. 89
Central Valley, California	p. 115
The Arctic, Part One: Inuit Nunaat, Canada	p. 149
The Arctic, Part Two: Greenland	p. 173
Dhaka, Bangladesh	p. 197
New York, New York	p. 227
Epilogue: The Trillionth Ton	p. 261
United States Climate Change Almanac	p. 273
New York Statistics	p. 297
The World's Most Vulnerable Places	p. 299
Notes	p. 303
Acknowledgments	p. 313
Index	p. 317
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