Extreme Weather
- ISBN-10
- 0737755164
- ISBN-13
- 9780737755169
- Series
- Extreme Weather
- Category
- Young Adult Nonfiction
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-11-09
- Publisher
- Greenhaven Publishing LLC
- Author
- Tom Streissguth
Description
Author Tom Streissguth provides an enthralling look into extreme weather. He examines issues from a variety of expert perspectives, highlighting key future challenges, and addressing the pros and cons of potential solutions. Readers will explore the relationship between global climate change and extreme weather, including air and water chemistry, solar radiation, hurricanes, and tropical cyclones, and heat waves. They will learn about other potential future warming and drought. They will examine the experience and impact from the Dust Bowl of the 1930s to the current water crisis in California.
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Other editions
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- 2016-01-12
- 352 pages
- Ebook
- John Wiley & Sons
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- 2015-12-14
- 352 pages
- Paperback
- John Wiley & Sons
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