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

Friederike Otto, Sarah Pybus

eBook - 2020

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 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 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... more