| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 329 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| 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] |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Subject |
Weather forecasting.
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Climatic changes -- Forecasting.
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Global environmental change -- Forecasting.
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Global warming -- Forecasting.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cullen, Heidi. Weather of the future. New York : HarperCollins, c2010 9780061726880 (OCoLC)503638578 |
| ISBN |
9780061992421 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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0061992429 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) |
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