- Publisher: Greystone
- Year: 2023
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 264pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 215x139mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.3kg
- ISBN: 9781778400742
- Product code: 538824
Angry Weather
Heat Waves, Floods, Storms, and the New Science of Climate Change
Benjamin von Brackel , Friederike Otto , Trans. Sarah Pybus New Paperback
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One of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2021, the climatologist Friederike Otto has been in the forefront of demonstrating the links between human-induced climate change and extreme weather events. In this book she explains the development of this new science, the detailed evidence it has discovered, and the resistance it has encountered, before addressing the issues of climate justice and the environmental responsibilities of countries and corporations.
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From leading climate scientist Dr. Friederike Otto, this gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather events-including deadly heat waves, forest fires, floods, and hurricanes-to climate change.
"Meet the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, you'll 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 Nature
Tied 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 unit-a team of scientists that studies extreme weather events while they're happening-and 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 Harvey's 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 change's 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.
"Meet the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, you'll 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 Nature
Tied 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 unit-a team of scientists that studies extreme weather events while they're happening-and 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 Harvey's 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 change's 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.
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Benjamin von Brackel, Friederike Otto, Trans. Sarah Pybus
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