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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... Kyoto Protocol . This document requires in- dustrial countries to cut their aggregate CO2 emissions by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2012 . But faced with ferocious resistance from U.S. oil companies and automakers , President Bill ...
... Kyoto Protocol . This document requires in- dustrial countries to cut their aggregate CO2 emissions by 5.2 percent below 1990 levels by 2012 . But faced with ferocious resistance from U.S. oil companies and automakers , President Bill ...
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... Kyoto Protocol . In the United States , such a conver- sion would have the tremendous simultaneous benefit of enhancing national security , improving public health , and strengthening our economy , as we'll see in later chapters . But ...
... Kyoto Protocol . In the United States , such a conver- sion would have the tremendous simultaneous benefit of enhancing national security , improving public health , and strengthening our economy , as we'll see in later chapters . But ...
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... Kyoto mechanism for reducing CO2 . But while this technique seems to work well under the uniform conditions of a single country , it becomes extremely complicated and prone to abuse on the global scale , as Kyoto nations have discovered ...
... Kyoto mechanism for reducing CO2 . But while this technique seems to work well under the uniform conditions of a single country , it becomes extremely complicated and prone to abuse on the global scale , as Kyoto nations have discovered ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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