us as a global society to tackle climate change with our intellect, not fuelled by direct experience and resulting emotions. The structure of the book, built around a hurricane in Texas, is not always an asset, but it does create a sort of curiosity. Für mich klingt das so, als würde man diskutieren, zu viel Prozent die Zerstörung der Synagoge in irgendeiner bestimmten deutschen Kleinstadt 1938 auf das Konto des schon vor 1933 verbreiteten Antisemitismus und wie viele Prozent aus Konto der Nazi-Propaganda geht. Otto is also the co-founder and lead on the international project World Weather Attribution, which assesses the human influence on extreme weather and has been profiled in the New York Times, Nature, and other outlets.

The tropics demonstrate this well, as it generally rains much more intensely there than at temperate latitudes. Das Problem sind nicht diejenigen, die nichts vom anthropogenen Klimawandel wissen oder ihn leugnen, sondern diejenigen – die überwiegende Mehrheit! Ich lese ja gerne mal eine Außenseiterposition, aber Otto scheint sich gar nicht bewusst zu sein, wie sehr sie beschwichtigt. Some of the radiation is thrown back to Earth, like a game of table tennis between the Earth’s surface and greenhouse gases in which the energy decreases with every point of contact.A neat idea to twine together two strands: first, Otto and team's work in responding to a particular weather event in Texas and, second, the broader story about her team's initialization, development, academic and political reception, and grand plans. Or, in the words of a German radio station, it “provides the arguments for the Fridays for Future movement. the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, you’ll be equally enthralled with the skill and speed these folks exhibit.

For example, the flooding of the River Elbe and the Danube in 2013 was not an extreme event that bore the hallmarks of climate change.With this new knowledge I obtained so much of the creative freedom I was looking for and eventually developed my first collection. Since 1776, the year in which King George III granted James Watt patent number 913 for his steam engine, the Earth’s temperature has increased by around 1 °C (1. It is the people who have no responsibility for causing climate change who are now taking to the streets, the courtrooms, and hopefully soon all the circles where decisions are made. When he and his steam engine paved the way for mechanical power and locomotives, they awakened humanity’s voracious hunger for coal, oil, and natural gas.

To do so, we need to step away from large-scale averages and understand how climate change is reflected in a specific drought, flood, or storm. 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.If we change all these factors—the temperature, composition of the atmosphere, and cloud formation (and we are changing them)—then we also alter the circulation. Immediacy bias is important to peoples' attention (see my connecting some thoughts from my previous non-fiction read to this book). We have known that this is happening since 1896, when Svante Arrhenius discovered the connection between global warming and greenhouse gases. If flooding becomes more popular, permits for construction in what were once infrequent flood plains need to be re-evaluated.