Climate: Into the 21st century edited by William Burroughs, Cambridge University Press, £24.95, ISBN 0521792029 Reviewed by Fred Pearce
JUST feel the heat. Tens of thousands died across Europe this summer in the warmest temperatures on record. Last autumn, central Europe had record floods. Weird weather is nothing new, of course. The 20th century opened with a hurricane that devastated Galveston in Texas, killing about 10,000, and with millions dying in an Ethiopian drought. But equally, there has been a lot of it about lately. A record number of records have been broken in recent years. We are all familiar…
