Usable thoughts: climate, water and weather in the twenty-first Century
This pocket-sized book aims to inform and stimulate discussion at the family and community level in regard of the human consequences of climate change. It provides information on fundamental subjects like the difference between climate and weather, how climate patterns are measured and importantly, how society is affected by climate changes in terms of energy, food, water and biodiversity.
It takes more than 50 summary statements from William Burroughs’ World Meteorological Organization publication, entitled Climate: Into the 21st Century (2003), and supplements them by brief comments and statistics, highlighting central points with words and images to create an understanding of the issue as a whole.
Amongst climatic events, it addresses: Northern middle latitude winter storms, drought and dust, tropical cyclones, el Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO), and drought in Africa; and as impacts of a varying climate: major temperate zone droughts, storm surges, tropical storms, desertification, floods around the world, heat waves, exceptional weather and climate events, as well as freshwater.
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