The Weather of the Future

by Cullen, Heidi

• ISBN13: 9780061726880
• ISBN10: 0061726885
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-03
• Publisher: Harpercollins

Summary

Written by one of America's foremost experts on climate change, "The Weather of the Future" offers a provocative forecast of what different parts of the world could look like in the year 2050 if we do not reduce carbon emissions from current levels.

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
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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