Hot : living through the next fifty years on earth / Mark Hertsgaard

Includes bibliographical references and index.

HOT is a father's cry against climate change, but most of the book focuses on solutions, offering a deeply reported blueprint for how all of us?as parents, communities, companies and countries?can navigate this unavoidable new era. Combining reporting from across the nation and around the world with personal reflections on his daughter´s future, Hertsgaard provides "pictures" of what is expected over the next fifty years: Chicago´s climate transformed to resemble Houston´s; dwindling water supplies and crop yields at home and abroad; the redesign of New York and other cities against mega-storms and sea-level rise. Above all, he shows who is taking wise, creative precautions. For in the end, HOT is a book about how we´ll survive.