Climate Change Impact

As Earth's atmosphere steadily gets warmer due to human-caused climate change, communities around the world are increasingly suffering from an onslaught of damaging, often scary effects. Only a few include large-scale floods caused by rising sea levels and catastrophic rain events; bigger and more intense hurricanes; larger and more numerous wildfires; and massive heat waves and droughts. This volume provides an overview of the problem and current efforts to deal with it in communities...
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As Earth's atmosphere steadily gets warmer due to human-caused climate change, communities around the world are increasingly suffering from an onslaught of damaging, often scary effects. Only a few include large-scale floods caused by rising sea levels and catastrophic rain events; bigger and more intense hurricanes; larger and more numerous wildfires; and massive heat waves and droughts. This volume provides an overview of the problem and current efforts to deal with it in communities worldwide.