A TIME 100 Most Influential Person of 2021: Friederike Otto
"Meet the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, you will be equally enthralled with the skill and speed these folks exhibit. But the stakes are infinitely higher!"—Bill McKibben, author of Falter and The End of Nature
Angry Weather tells the compelling, day-by-day story of Hurricane Harvey, which caused over a hundred deaths and $125 billion in damage in 2017. As the hurricane unfolds, Otto reveals how attribution science works in real time, and determines that Harvey's terrifying floods were three times more likely to occur due to human-induced climate change.
This new ability to determine climate change's role in extreme weather events has the potential to dramatically transform society—for individuals, who can see how climate change affects their loved ones, and corporations and governments, who may see themselves held accountable in the courts. Otto's research laid out in this groundbreaking book will have profound impacts, both today and for the future of humankind.
Published in Partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781778400742
Media Type: Paperback
Publisher: Greystone Books
Publication Date: 05-02-2023
Pages: 264
Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.00(d)
Series: David Suzuki Institute
About the Author
Friederike (Fredi) Otto is a physicist, philosopher, climate researcher, senior lecturer at the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London. 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. Otto was named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2021 and and as one of the top 10 people who helped shape science in 2021 by the journal Nature.
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