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EDITORIAL REVIEW: 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 illu

Who reads The Weather of the Future : Heat Waves, Extreme Storms, and Other Scenes from a Climate-changed Planet?

Author

Heidi Cullen

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061726880

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Physics, Science

Rating

3.76 / 5 (212 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14