Keywords:
Climatic changes.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Droughts, floods, and fires impact millions of people and cost billions every year. Climate change is making these catastrophes more dangerous - NOW. This book describes how and why by combining the latest science with compelling stories to provide a timely, accessible, and beautifully written account of this critical topic.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (336 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781108881159
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=6653923
DDC:
551.6
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Climate Extremes, Climate Attribution, Extreme Event Attribution -- Introduction -- Exploring Recent Extremes -- Extreme Event Attribution and Prediction -- Book Structure and Intent -- 2 Welcome to an Awesome Planet: A Series of Delicate Balances Support Earth's Fragile Flame -- Enabling Occurrence 1: Balanced Dark Energy and Gravity -- Enabling Occurrence 2: A Green Galaxy -- Enabling Occurrence 3: Good Galactic Real Estate -- Enabling Occurrence 4: A Very Nice Star -- Enabling Occurrence 5: A Very Nice Atmosphere -- Enabling Occurrence 6: The Hadley and Walker Circulations -- Enabling Occurrence 7: Amazing Life -- Welcome to an Awesome Planet -- 3 The Earth Is a Negentropic System, or ''the Bright Side of Empty'' -- Principle 1: Emptiness Bad -- Principle 2: Energy Gradients Make Stuff Happen - or Not -- Conclusion -- 4 Do-It-Yourself Climate Change Science -- Observational Evidence for Climate Change -- 5 Temperature Extremes - Impacts and Attribution: Shocks, Exposure, and Vulnerability -- Small Changes Can Dramatically Increase the Chance of Extremes -- How Extreme Have Temperatures Been in 2015-2019? -- Quantifying Increases in Exposure to Extreme Air Temperatures -- Can We Attribute a Portion of These Impacts to Climate Change? -- Explosive Interactions with Future Population Growth -- Conclusion -- 6 Precipitation Extremes: Observations and Impacts -- Introduction -- A Conceptual Model of Temperature: Water Vapor Relationships -- Examining the Data -- 2015-2019 Impacts of Extreme Precipitation -- Climate Change Projections -- 7 Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons -- Complexities Surrounding Cyclone Attribution and Detection -- Storyline-Based Attribution Studies: An Example for Houston -- Conclusion: Climate Change Is Hurting People Now.
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8 Conceptual Models of Climate Change and Prediction, and How They Relate to Floods and Fires -- Introduction -- Contrasting ''Bathtub'' Warming with Energy Convergence Patterns -- Exceptional Flooding and Temperatures in 2019 -- Climate Change? -- Conceptual Models Can Lead to Rapid Transformation -- 9 Climate Change Made the 2015-2016 El Niño More Extreme -- Hunger, El Niño, and the Southern Oscillation -- Attributing Potential Climate Change Impacts on the 2015/2016 El Niño -- 10 Bigger La Niñas and the East African Climate Paradox -- Did Climate Change Make the 2017 East Africa Drought More Intense? -- Did Climate Change Make the 2017 March-to-May Drought More Intense? -- Putting the Pieces Together -- 11 Fire and Drought in the Western United States -- 2017 -- 2018 -- 12 Fire and Australia's Black Summer -- Conclusion -- 13 Driving toward +4C on a Dixie® Cup Planet -- Representative Concentration Pathways -- Examining the Global Carbon Budget -- Summarizing the Known Unknowns -- 14 We Can Afford to Wear a White Hat -- Why Our Human ''Time Bomb'' Can Be a Good Thing -- Appendix A Few Resources for Further Reading and Research -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Index.
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