The Weather of the Future - Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate Changed

In The Weather of the Future, Dr. Heidi Cullen, one of the world''s foremost climatologists and environmental journalists, puts a vivid face on climate change, offering students a new way of seeing this phenomenon not just as an event set to happen in the distant future but as something happening right now in our own backyards. Arguing that we must connect the weather of today with the climate change of tomorrow, Cullen combines the latest research from scientists on the ground with state-of-the-art climate model projections to create climate-change scenarios for seven of the most at- risk locations around the world. Provocative and convincing, The Weather of the Future makes climate change local, showing students how no two regions of the country or the world will be affected in quite the same way and demonstrating that melting ice is just the beginning. ''A scorching vision of what life might be like in the warmer world that is already on its way. ''Although ''Weather of the Future'' sounds like an exercise in speculation, Ms. Cullen grounds her harrowing predictions - extrapolations, really - in ''the best available science'' derived from an array of climate models, environmental data and interviews with scientists. And her forecasts actually turn out to be an armature for discussing the fallout of climate change (from rising sea levels to more extreme weather) in an accessible, tactile fashion and for examining existing liabilities in various regions and cities, like overstretched infrastructure and dwindling water supplies.''-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Heidi Cullen, Cullen Heidi
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2011
• EAN: 9780061726941
• ISBN: 978-0-06-172694-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, NATURE / Weather, History of Science, Reference works, Weather and climate: general interest, Meteorology and climatology, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Environmental science, engineering and technology, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: FOOD: HEALTH: AND THE ENVIRONMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES: SCIENCE & NATURE, SCIENCE: Global Warming & Climate Change, NATURE: Weather, First Year Experience / Food, Health, & the Environment, Environmental Studies / Science & Nature