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The Weather Of The Future
Heidi Cullen
Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-Changed Planet
HarperCollins
August 2010
On Sale: August 3, 2010
352 pages
ISBN: 0061726885
EAN: 9780061726880
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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 change?
What would our forecast be? Welcome 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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