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Intro -- Praise -- Title Page -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Contents -- Conversion Table for Key Temperatures -- Foreword -- 1: Ground Zero -- 2: Earth's Climate Switchback -- 3: Hot and Steamy with a Chance of Collapsing Ice Sheets -- 4: Hothouse Planet -- 5: Meteorological Mayhem and Society on the Edge -- 6: Going Under -- 7: Stings in the Tail -- 8: Climate Wars -- 9: Health and Well-Being on an Overheated Planet -- 10: The Big Questions -- Afterword -- Online and Offline Resources -- Index -- Copyright.

What do earthquakes, magma, asteroid 1950DA, and global warming have in common? Not only are they are all natural disasters already under way, but they are ones scientists are now working to predict and prevent. Bill McGuire guides us through the latest approaches being explored to protect the planet, and argues we can make a genuine bid to get through what nature throws at us - providing we take the risks seriously. - ;The Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004 killed more than a quarter of a million people and shattered the lives of many more. The ruthless indifference of the forces of nature to ou