Angry Weather (eBook)

Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change

Friederike Otto (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
Greystone Books (Verlag)
978-1-77164-615-4 (ISBN)

Infos

From leading climate scientist Dr. Friederike Otto, this gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather eventsincluding deadly heat waves, forest fires, floods, and hurricanesto climate change.Meet the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, youll be equally enthralled with the skill and speed these folks exhibit. But the stakes are infinitely higher! Bill McKibben, author of Falter and The End of NatureTied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest cyclone on record, Hurricane Harvey caused catastrophic flooding and over a hundred deaths in 2017. Angry Weather tells the compelling, day-by-day story of the World Weather Attribution unita team of scientists that studies extreme weather events while theyre happeningand their race to track the connection between the hurricane and climate change. As the hurricane unfolds, Otto reveals how attribution science works in real time, and determines that Harveys terrifying floods were three times more likely to occur due to human-induced climate change.At the forefront of cutting-edge climate science, Friederike Otto uncovers how the new ability to determine climate changes role in extreme weather events can dramatically transform how we view the climate crisis: from how it will affect those of us who are most vulnerable, to the corporations and governments that may find themselves held accountable in the courts. The research laid out in Angry Weather will have profound impacts, both today and for the future of humankind.Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

Autor

lt;p>FRIEDERIKE (FREDI) OTTO is a physicist, climate researcher, associate professor, and the acting director of the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Otto is also a co-investigator on the international project World Weather Attribution, which assesses the human influence on extreme weather and has been profiled in the New YorkTimes, Nature, and others.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2020
• Reihe/Serie: David Suzuki Institute
• Reihe/Serie: World Weather Attribution
• Übersetzer: Sarah Pybus
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Schlagworte: angry weather • best books 2020 • Bill Gates • Books About Climate Change • books about extreme weather • books about natural disasters • books about storms • breach of faith • California Wildfires • carl sagan • chesapeake requiem • Cosmos • Davie Eggers • drowned city • Elizabeth Kolbert • europe floods • field guide to weather • Field Notes from a Catastrophe • five days at memorial • friederike otto • good books to read 2020 • heat wave • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster • Hurricane Harvey • hurricane harvey’s aftermath • Hurricane Katrina • Into the Storm • Isaac’s Storm • Jenny Offill • Jonathan Safran Foer • Katrina after the flood • Lucy Jones • National Geographic • Salvage the Bones • storms of my grandchildren • the big ones • the great deluge • the heat will kill you first • The Perfect Storm • the stormchasers • the weather machine • We are the Weather • Weather • weather attribution • weather science • wildfires • Zeitoun
• ISBN-10: 1-77164-615-2 / 1771646152
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77164-615-4 / 9781771646154