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Hurricane-Climate Books

Explore how global warming and hurricanes link in new books highlighting the impacts of climate change on coastal cities.

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Here they come, surfing atop the literary swell generated by the upcoming one year anniversary of Katrina: The first two popular books (that I'm aware of, anyway) that put global warming and hurricanes in the foreground. Neither book is exclusively devoted to the subject, as far as I can tell; but both books discuss it, and indeed, that's obvious from their titles:

Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms, by John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities, by Mike Tidwell

Hmm...sounds like both of these books are going to be sounding the alarm about stronger hurricanes due to global warming. I've just ordered both from Amazon (links above) so we'll soon find out if my supposition is right. It will be very interesting to see how/if they deal with the ...

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