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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... Louisiana , where the city fathers struggled to keep their drinking water from turn- ing salty . Cartography also told the story . The historic maps of Louisiana from 1750 to 1850 to 1950 , followed by satellite photo- graphs from the ...
... Louisiana , where the city fathers struggled to keep their drinking water from turn- ing salty . Cartography also told the story . The historic maps of Louisiana from 1750 to 1850 to 1950 , followed by satellite photo- graphs from the ...
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... Louisiana . At one point out at sea , Rita was the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico , with sustained Category 5 winds of 175 miles per hour and a circumference nearly as big as the Gulf itself . She came ...
... Louisiana . At one point out at sea , Rita was the most powerful hurricane ever recorded in the Gulf of Mexico , with sustained Category 5 winds of 175 miles per hour and a circumference nearly as big as the Gulf itself . She came ...
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... Louisiana State University had estab- lished that a series of feasible engineering projects not only could coun- teract much of the subsidence but could actually create new barrier islands and wetlands fairly rapidly . This would ...
... Louisiana State University had estab- lished that a series of feasible engineering projects not only could coun- teract much of the subsidence but could actually create new barrier islands and wetlands fairly rapidly . This would ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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