By Drs. Sylvain Ehrenfeld and Reba Goodman There is strong scientific consensus that the heavy rainfall, and the power of the storms Harvey and Irma that roared through Houston, Texas, and Florida was caused by climate change. Harvey and Irma would not have been so intense if the air and sea fueling them hadn’t been so warm. The […]
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Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas, and the Weather of the Future
Author: Climate Central (2012, Pantheon Books, a division of Random House) Reviewed by Theresa Forsman Ideally, science and journalism are non-partisan. Ideally, discussions about global warming are also non-partisan. That makes Global Weirdness an ideal book for those who want to understand the accumulated knowledge about climate change and the risks it poses. […]
