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The Weather of the Future电子书

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作       者:Cullen, Heidi

出  版  社:HarperCollins e-books

出版时间:2010-08-01

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Droughts. Floods.Climate refugees.Global warming isn't just about polar bears anymore. Let's assume we do nothing about climate change. Imagine that we just continue to emit carbon at our current levels or even exceed those levels. How would our weather changeWhat would our forecast beWelcome to The Weather of the Future. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Heidi Cullen, one of the world's foremost climatologists and environmental journalists, puts a vivid face on climate change, offering 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.From the Central Valley of California, where coming droughts will jeopardize the entire state's water supply, 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. What emerges is a mosaic of changing weather patterns that collectively spell out the range of risks posed by global warming whether it's New York City, whose infrastructure is extremely vulnerable to even a relatively weak category 3 hurricane, or Bangladesh, a country so low-lying that millions of people could become climate refugees due to rising sea levels.Provocative and convincing, The Weather of the Future makes climate change local, showing 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.
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Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Introduction

Part 1 - Your Weather is Your Climate

Chapter 1 - Climate and Weather Together

Chapter 2 - Seeing Climate Change in Our Past

Chapter 3 - The Science of Prediction

Chapter 4 - Extreme Weather Autopsies and The Forty-Year Forecast

Part 2 - The Weather of the Future

Chapter 5 - The Sahel, Africa

Chapter 6 - The Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Chapter 7 - Central Valley, California

Chapter 8 - The Arctic, Part One: Inuit Nunaat, Canada

Chapter 9 - The Arctic, Part Two: Greenland

Chapter 10 - Dhaka, Bangladesh

Chapter 11 - 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

Index

Acknowledgments

Copyright

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