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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... Category 5 winds of 175 miles per hour and a circumference nearly as big as the Gulf itself . She came ashore along Louisiana's western coast as a Category 3 , with a ten - foot surge tide that left Hiroshima - like scenes in Cameron ...
... Category 5 winds of 175 miles per hour and a circumference nearly as big as the Gulf itself . She came ashore along Louisiana's western coast as a Category 3 , with a ten - foot surge tide that left Hiroshima - like scenes in Cameron ...
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... Category 1 , 2 , and 3 storms worldwide has fallen slightly in the past thirty - five years , while the number of Category 4 and 5 storms — the most powerful ones — has grown tremendously . In the decade of the 1970s , an average of ten ...
... Category 1 , 2 , and 3 storms worldwide has fallen slightly in the past thirty - five years , while the number of Category 4 and 5 storms — the most powerful ones — has grown tremendously . In the decade of the 1970s , an average of ten ...
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... category higher in the standard Saffir - Simpson intensity scale . A Category 4 storm , for example , with wind speeds in excess of 148 mph , will pro- duce on average up to 250 times the damage of a Category 1 storm with winds of 74 ...
... category higher in the standard Saffir - Simpson intensity scale . A Category 4 storm , for example , with wind speeds in excess of 148 mph , will pro- duce on average up to 250 times the damage of a Category 1 storm with winds of 74 ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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