The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal CitiesPredicts 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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 75
Página 5
These two factors — more intense storms and rising ocean levelsmean we are
rapidly turning the majority of America ' s coastal cities into places greatly
resembling New Orleans . Thanks to global warming , mountain glaciers
worldwide are ...
These two factors — more intense storms and rising ocean levelsmean we are
rapidly turning the majority of America ' s coastal cities into places greatly
resembling New Orleans . Thanks to global warming , mountain glaciers
worldwide are ...
Página 30
In 2004 , the New Orleans Times - Picayune reported that the Bush
administration was investing less than 20 percent of what was necessary to
adequately fortify the city ' s levees , as determined by the Corps of Engineers .
And that same year ...
In 2004 , the New Orleans Times - Picayune reported that the Bush
administration was investing less than 20 percent of what was necessary to
adequately fortify the city ' s levees , as determined by the Corps of Engineers .
And that same year ...
Página 66
trina , riding in on a runway of open water , crashing headlong into the heart of
New Orleans . It ' d be nice to think that this was an isolated case , a phenomenon
peculiar to poor old New Orleans , the town below sea level . The rest of us , safe
...
trina , riding in on a runway of open water , crashing headlong into the heart of
New Orleans . It ' d be nice to think that this was an isolated case , a phenomenon
peculiar to poor old New Orleans , the town below sea level . The rest of us , safe
...
Comentarios de la gente - Escribir un comentario
No encontramos ningún comentario en los lugares habituales.
Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Why Do Societies Commit Suicide? | 33 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 5 secciones no mostradas
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of ... Mike Tidwell Vista previa limitada - 2006 |
The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of ... Mike Tidwell Sin vista previa disponible - 2006 |
The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of ... Mike Tidwell Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |
Términos y frases comunes
already American buildings Bush called carbon cars cause century clean climate coast coastal coming completely continue corn cost course created dioxide economy efficiency electricity emissions energy entire fact farm feet finally five flood forests fuel future global warming granary greenhouse growing Gulf half happen heat House human hundred hurricane impacts industry islands It's Katrina land least less levees live lots Louisiana lower major means miles million months move natural nearly never ocean Orleans past percent planet president problem projected record region rest result River scientific scientists sea-level rise simply soon storm surge there's thing thousand trees turn United Washington wetlands White wind York
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities |
| Autor | Mike Tidwell |
| Editor | Free Press, 2006 |
| ISBN | 1416560246, 9781416560241 |
| Largo | 196 páginas |
| Exportar cita | BiBTeX EndNote RefMan |