ANGRY WEATHER

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 Nature Tied 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 attribution science works in real time and determines that Harvey s terrifying floods were three times more likely to occur due to human induced climate change At the forefront of cutting edge climate science Friederike Otto uncovers how the new ability to determine climate change s role in extreme weather events can dramatically transform how we view the climate crisis