"If you think the world's weather catastrophes are becoming more frequent and more powerful, you're right....Is this a coincidence, or is the way we live wreaking havoc on our weather? Journalist Bob Reiss shares America's growing fascination with the phenomenon of extreme weather, painting an ominous forecast for the twenty-first century....We...follow Reiss as he travels around the world and interviews top scientists to learn of their predictions for our future which include rising seas, a surge in tropical diseases, killing heat waves, more severe storms, and mass migration from destabilized countries...."