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November 12th, 2025

Environmentalism Book Club

"Angry Weather" by Friederike Otto

This gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather events--including deadly heat waves, forest fires, floods, and hurricanes--to climate change.

Our 12th selection is Angry weather: heat waves, floods, storms, and the new science of climate change by Friederike Otto.

FROM CATALOG

Massive fires, widespread floods, Category 4 hurricanes--shocking weather disasters dominate news headlines every year, but not everyone agrees on what causes them.

Renowned University of Oxford researcher Friederike Otto provides an answer with attribution science, a revolutionary method for pinpointing the role of climate change in extreme weather events. Anchoring her book with the gripping, day-by-day story of Hurricane Harvey, which caused over a hundred deaths and $125 billion in damage in 2017, 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

This group will meet the second Wednesday of each month. Registration is required. 

This title is available now as an eBook via Hoopla.

If you have any questions, please email: elyse.kaderli@westlakelibrary.org 

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