Global Weirdness: Severe Storms, Heat Waves, Drought & Rising Seas - Climate Change Book for Understanding Future Weather Patterns | Perfect for Environmental Studies & Eco-Conscious Readers

Global Weirdness is a book about global warming that is focused on the effects of global warming. The book is divided into four parts encompassing in total 60 short chapters. Part I “What the science says” explains what we know about global warming, what is causing it, and how we know it. Part II “What’s actually happening” tells us what is happening right now. Part III “what’s likely to happen in the future” is about things we know will happen unless we change course as well as things that might happen if we don’t change course. Part IV “can we avoid the risks of climate change” focuses on ways to mitigate the effects of global warming and ways to avoid it such as geo-engineering.The chapters are short and easy to read and overall the book is a layman’s introduction to the effects of global warming. However, the author provides a lot of references for those who want to go deeper. The book is very well organized and it can be used as a reference book, almost like an encyclopedia. Just look in the contents for the right chapter. The chapter titles are quite descriptive. Quite often the chapter titles are questions and the chapter content encompasses the answer. The book is also well written and it does not contain any overstatements. It focuses on the established and proven science and in general avoids speculation, unless it explicitly states that it is. This may actually make the book scarier to some people. The known facts and the quite likely scenarios are pretty scary on their own, at least for future generations.Over the last couple of years I have become increasingly interested in and worried about global warming. I‘ve studied the science behind it (I have degree in physics) and the evidence that it is happening is very compelling. Yet there is so much science denial and resistance to action in the US. My home country Sweden is handling this much better. I really hope this objective and tempered book could wake up some people.