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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... White House chief of staff and scores of deputies and presidential advisers all came from oil or automobile backgrounds . Suddenly the oil industry no longer had to lobby the White House . The oil industry was the White House . So there ...
... White House chief of staff and scores of deputies and presidential advisers all came from oil or automobile backgrounds . Suddenly the oil industry no longer had to lobby the White House . The oil industry was the White House . So there ...
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... white in the sun , was the square top of Mount Kiliman- jaro . " Today , almost every bit of that cold , white landscape is gone , melted away , vanished . Kilimanjaro will be totally ice free within a de- cade , experts say , thanks to ...
... white in the sun , was the square top of Mount Kiliman- jaro . " Today , almost every bit of that cold , white landscape is gone , melted away , vanished . Kilimanjaro will be totally ice free within a de- cade , experts say , thanks to ...
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... White House to use its diplomatic clout to oust him . 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. envi ...
... White House to use its diplomatic clout to oust him . 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. envi ...
Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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