Book contents
- Drought, Flood, Fire
- Drought, Flood, Fire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Climate Extremes, Climate Attribution, Extreme Event Attribution
- 2 Welcome to an Awesome Planet
- 3 The Earth Is a Negentropic System, or “the Bright Side of Empty”
- 4 Do-It-Yourself Climate Change Science
- 5 Temperature Extremes – Impacts and Attribution
- 6 Precipitation Extremes
- 7 Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons
- 8 Conceptual Models of Climate Change and Prediction, and How They Relate to Floods and Fires
- 9 Climate Change Made the 2015–2016 El Niño More Extreme
- 10 Bigger La Niñas and the East African Climate Paradox
- 11 Fire and Drought in the Western United States
- 12 Fire and Australia’s Black Summer
- 13 Driving toward +4°C on a Dixie® Cup Planet
- 14 We Can Afford to Wear a White Hat
- Appendix A Few Resources for Further Reading and Research
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2021
Book contents
- Drought, Flood, Fire
- Drought, Flood, Fire
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Climate Extremes, Climate Attribution, Extreme Event Attribution
- 2 Welcome to an Awesome Planet
- 3 The Earth Is a Negentropic System, or “the Bright Side of Empty”
- 4 Do-It-Yourself Climate Change Science
- 5 Temperature Extremes – Impacts and Attribution
- 6 Precipitation Extremes
- 7 Hurricanes, Cyclones, and Typhoons
- 8 Conceptual Models of Climate Change and Prediction, and How They Relate to Floods and Fires
- 9 Climate Change Made the 2015–2016 El Niño More Extreme
- 10 Bigger La Niñas and the East African Climate Paradox
- 11 Fire and Drought in the Western United States
- 12 Fire and Australia’s Black Summer
- 13 Driving toward +4°C on a Dixie® Cup Planet
- 14 We Can Afford to Wear a White Hat
- Appendix A Few Resources for Further Reading and Research
- Index
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- Drought, Flood, FireHow Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes, pp. 321 - 326Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021