Extreme weather /James Shoals.

By:

Shoals, James [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781422274507

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

QC863 .E987 2020

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Contents:

Cold waves -- Increasing floods -- Pakistan floods -- Calamities in China -- Hurricanes -- Thunderstorms -- Droughts -- Extreme droughts -- Severe wildfires -- Wildfires around the world -- Extreme allergies -- Landslides, mudslides -- and avalanches -- Winter weather -- Glacial earthquakes -- A disastrous 2018 -- Environmental refugees.

Subject: "Climate change and natural disasters, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms, have been occurring since the dawn of time. But global warming is a phenomenon induced by humankind. Scientists across the world have been thoroughly examining the changing climate, and have found close links between global warming and extreme climatic events. Global warming induced by humans has drastically altered global climatic patterns. Natural disasters that used to occur once in a hundred years are now occurring more frequently, more extensively, and with greater intensity. The destruction and damage caused by such events are also increasing. Frequent extremities in weather events are drastically affecting the global population by increasing the death toll each passing year"--

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"Climate change and natural disasters, such as heat waves, droughts, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms, have been occurring since the dawn of time. But global warming is a phenomenon induced by humankind. Scientists across the world have been thoroughly examining the changing climate, and have found close links between global warming and extreme climatic events. Global warming induced by humans has drastically altered global climatic patterns. Natural disasters that used to occur once in a hundred years are now occurring more frequently, more extensively, and with greater intensity. The destruction and damage caused by such events are also increasing. Frequent extremities in weather events are drastically affecting the global population by increasing the death toll each passing year"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

Extreme heat waves -- Cold waves -- Increasing floods -- Pakistan floods -- Calamities in China -- Hurricanes -- Thunderstorms -- Droughts -- Extreme droughts -- Severe wildfires -- Wildfires around the world -- Extreme allergies -- Landslides, mudslides -- and avalanches -- Winter weather -- Glacial earthquakes -- A disastrous 2018 -- Environmental refugees.

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