The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal CitiesFree Press, 2006 - 196 páginas Predicts a rise in ocean levels throughout the next few decades and more catastrophic weather patterns that are threatening some of the nation's largest cities, identifying the consequences of the past century's consumption of fossil fuels. |
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... find them but find they are intensifying with great relevance to our present and future lives . If this were some futuristic , interactive book I would have you press a button right here to read twenty pages about all the observed and ...
... find them but find they are intensifying with great relevance to our present and future lives . If this were some futuristic , interactive book I would have you press a button right here to read twenty pages about all the observed and ...
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... find the city already totally saturated with water around the edges , hanging on by a thread . Finally , the same warming that raises sea level will also likely endow New York's next Big One with much stronger winds . These winds will ...
... find the city already totally saturated with water around the edges , hanging on by a thread . Finally , the same warming that raises sea level will also likely endow New York's next Big One with much stronger winds . These winds will ...
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... find dead bodies in Few Orleans as New Orleans as this book went to press in the late spring of 2006. Two bodies were discovered April 17 buried below what used to be a house in the Lower Ninth Ward . The find brought to nearly 20 the ...
... find dead bodies in Few Orleans as New Orleans as this book went to press in the late spring of 2006. Two bodies were discovered April 17 buried below what used to be a house in the Lower Ninth Ward . The find brought to nearly 20 the ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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