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. |
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None of this is very surprising given that the new president and vice president
and national security adviser and commerce secretary and White House chief of
staff and scores of deputies and presidential advisers all came from oil or ...
None of this is very surprising given that the new president and vice president
and national security adviser and commerce secretary and White House chief of
staff and scores of deputies and presidential advisers all came from oil or ...
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Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa , meanwhile , was once a great white castle of snow
and ice rising above the plains of Tanzania and Kenya . In his famous short story
“ The Snows of Kilimanjaro ” published in 1938 , Ernest Hemingway wrote , “ As ...
Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa , meanwhile , was once a great white castle of snow
and ice rising above the plains of Tanzania and Kenya . In his famous short story
“ The Snows of Kilimanjaro ” published in 1938 , Ernest Hemingway wrote , “ As ...
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In 2003 , with equal audacity , White House officials removed almost all
references to global warming from a landmark , six - hundred - page EPA report
on the “ state of the U . S . environment , ” leaving only a few neutral sentences on
the topic ...
In 2003 , with equal audacity , White House officials removed almost all
references to global warming from a landmark , six - hundred - page EPA report
on the “ state of the U . S . environment , ” leaving only a few neutral sentences on
the topic ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Why Do Societies Commit Suicide? | 33 |
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| 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 |
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