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feedback loops, 27–28, 51, 54, 163 heat waves, 48, 51–52
flooding, 6, 8, 11, 13, 50, 53, 70, and humidity, 47–48
88–89, 101–103, 107–108, 111, 115, deaths from, 15, 46, 48–49
124 European heat wave of 2019, 48
and cities, 54–55, 57, 63 in the US, 45–47, 47
and coastal cities, 109, 131, 133, hurricanes, 45, 56–57, 70, 94, 104,
136, 146. See also sea level rise 112, 136
and diseases, 56, 60 alternate names of, 59
and food, 105, 131 categories, 56, 58–60
deaths from, 53, 55–56 cost of damages, 60, 62–63
flash floods, 55–56 formation of, 57–59
Indian floods of 2018 and 2019, 53 Hurricane Harvey, 58–59, 134
nuisance flooding, 94 Hurricane Irma, 56–57, 59–60
Foote, Eunice, 29 Hurricane Katrina, 44, 61–62, 89,
fossil fuels, 21–24, 26, 35, 38–40, 113, 133–134, 136
154–155, 160, 162–165, 171–172 Hurricane Maria, 60, 133
Fourier, Joseph, 29 Hurricane Sandy, 58, 62
fracking, 23–24, 165 season, 57, 60–62
hybrid vehicles, 157–159
Glacier National Park, 96–97, 104
glaciers, 9, 20, 81, 95, 104–105, 112, Ice Age, 20, 29, 112
123, 148 ice calving, 99–100
global food supply, 65, 72, 75, 127, ice cores, 32–34
141, 145–146 Iceland, 104–105, 126, 165
global warming, 17–18, 34, 37, 93, Industrial Revolution, 15, 21–23,
112 25–26, 92, 96, 120, 167, 174
Gobi Desert, 71 Inhofe, James, 38
Gore, Al, 32, 44 Inslee, Jay, 35
Great Barrier Reef, 110, 121 Intergovernmental Science-Policy
Great Green Wall, 71 Platform on Biodiversity and
greenhouse effect, 19, 27, 29, 35 Ecosystem Services (IPBES),
greenhouse gases, 17, 19–22, 28, 113–114
30, 32, 35–36, 51, 68, 74–75, international agreements, 8, 93, 125,
82, 112–113, 120, 122, 148, 152, 138, 147, 153, 156, 167, 173–174
155–156, 159, 163, 167–168 1951 Convention Relating to the
discovery of, 28–29 Status of Refugees, 140
methane, 18–19, 24–27, 106, 159, 1967 Protocol Relating to the
161 Status of Refugees, 140
groundwater, 24, 74–75, 77, 88, 163 Paris Climate Agreement, 173
United Nations Framework
Hansen, James, 34–35, 93 Convention on Climate
harmful algae blooms (HABs), 124 Change, 36, 81

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