Judging Extreme Weather: Climate Science in Action, RandyCerveny, Routledge, 2024, Paperback £19.99, 208 pp. ISBN 978‐1‐03‐243 572‐5
Year: 2024
Type: book-review
Abstract: Randy Cerveny is a president's professor in geographical sciences at Arizona State University, where he teaches physical geography, climate change and meteorology.He is a contributing editor for the magazine Weatherwise, and author of two other weather-related books.In a 2022 interview with The Arizona Republic, a local newspaper, and more recently on a local television channel, CW7 Arizona (https:// www. youtu be. com/ watch?v= Whc3B 6dE_ xI), Cerveny discusses his book, highlighting an 'erroneous news report' that labelled Hurricane Katrina, which ravaged New Orleans in 2005, 'the worst hurricane of all time' .Cerveny was of the opinion that the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the Bhola cyclone of 1970 in Bangladesh were both far more devastating in terms of damage and mortality.This ignited his
Source: Weather
DOI: 10.1002/wea.7618
Author: Graham Denyer
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4402272663