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The book details how heat waves caused by global warming have had disastrous effects on society including the 2003 European heat wave that killed 72,000 people, including 15,000 people in Paris alone. The author explains that the city of Paris developed during a more temperate time, and as the planet warmed in the late twentieth and twenty ...
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science: Global warming: dispute of scientific consensus on climate change: Ian Plimer: 2009: ISBN 0-7043-7166-9: Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do: Global warming: evidence for dire consequences of inaction: Joseph J. Romm: 2006: ISBN ...
Katie Hawkinson recaps some of the best climate-related books from the past year, and which ones to look out for next year
Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...
With heat waves, drought, wildfire and heavy downpours, “we are seeing an acceleration of the impacts of climate change in the United States,” said study co-author Zeke Hausfather of the tech ...
The first chapter describes the expected effects of climate change with one degree Celsius (1 °C) increase in average global temperature since pre-industrial times.. The second chapter describes the effects of two degrees average temperature and so forth until Chapter 6 which shows the expected effects of an increase of six Celsius degrees (6 °C) average global temperature.
Heaven and Earth: Global Warming — The Missing Science: Ian Plimer: 2009: Global warming: ISBN 0-7043-7166-9: Hell and High Water: Global Warming — the Solution and the Politics — and What We Should Do: Joseph J. Romm: 2006: Global warming: ISBN 0-06-117212-X: High and Dry: John Howard, Climate Change and the Selling of Australia's Future ...
More people will be exposed to the ravages of flooding and drought. But if the nations involved in the Paris talks stay on their current emissions track and don’t reduce greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures could go up by almost 6 degrees Celsius this century, according to the Committee on Climate Change, an independent body that advises ...