The Maritime Book of Climate Change

The Maritime Book of Climate Change
Richard Zurawski
Nonfiction: The Maritimes, Weather, Climate Change192 pages$16.956" x 9" Paperback26 Illustrations/PhotographsISBN-13: 978-1-895900-97-2ISBN-10: 1-895900-97-2
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The global climate is changing. The world is getting warmer. The Arctic ice is melting faster than it has in 5,000 years, the oceans are warmer than they have been in 100,000, there are more and bigger storms all around the world and ocean levels are rising. And everyone wants to know what this means.
What would you do if Canada's Maritime Provinces were plunged into a mini ice age? What if the winter was eight months long? What if the Gulf Stream shut down and we were plunged into a 20-year winter? Can this really happen? These are a few of the possibilities that face us in the future.
Atlantic Canada has the dubious distinction of being "the global canary" of climate change. By a strange confluence of geography and meteorology, not only will we feel the effects of climate change first and most dramatically here, but also, paradoxically, we will experience a host of seemingly contradictory climate and weather effects. Global warming could actually lead to a cooling of the Maritimes, even a mini ice age spanning the North Atlantic, before the warming takes hold.
Almost certainly the oceans will rise. If so, how much and how fast? And it is quite possible that storms could get worse and more frequent. Can we expect more Hurricane Juans and White Juans? Richard Zurawski takes a hard look at our regional weather and then projects into the future to see what the Maritimes will look like in the coming years as the world's climate changes. And he discusses what we should be doing now. How we respond and how soon we respond to the coming changes will determine how easy or how difficult the transitions will be.
Richard Zurawski is a meteorologist, documentary filmmaker, and television and radio personality who has called Halifax, Nova Scotia, his home for almost two decades. He has been in the science and weather business for more than 25 years. He was the host, creator and producer of Wonder Why?, The Adventures of the AfterMath Crew and WiseWeatherWhys. His documentaries range from technology, to the weather, to philosophy. He can be heard daily on Rogers Radio in Halifax, Moncton and Saint John. His first book was Richard Zurawski's Book of Maritime Weather.