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

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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.;Your Weather is Your Climate. Climate and weather together ; Seeing climate change in our past ; The science of prediction ; Extreme weather autopsies and the forty-year forecast. -- The Weather of the Future. 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. -- The trillionth ton -- United States climate change almanac -- New York statistics -- The world's most vulnerable places. Your Weather is Your Climate. Climate and weather together Seeing climate change in our past The science of prediction Extreme weather autopsies and the forty-year forecast. -- The Weather of the Future. 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. -- The trillionth ton -- United States climate change almanac -- New York statistics -- The world's most vulnerable places.