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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... carbon dioxide rushed up to the atmo- sphere like a great river . up . If Today , climatologists like to call it the hockey stick . Imagine a hockey stick held parallel to the ground with the blade turned you plot the history of ...
... carbon dioxide rushed up to the atmo- sphere like a great river . up . If Today , climatologists like to call it the hockey stick . Imagine a hockey stick held parallel to the ground with the blade turned you plot the history of ...
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... carbon dioxide for the past ten thousand years . The graph then described the great carbon dioxide spike of the twentieth century and the almost ver- tical carbon takeoff projected for the twenty - first century . It was the fa- mous ...
... carbon dioxide for the past ten thousand years . The graph then described the great carbon dioxide spike of the twentieth century and the almost ver- tical carbon takeoff projected for the twenty - first century . It was the fa- mous ...
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... carbon dioxide emissions 50 per- cent , I had cut them by almost 90 percent . The combination of effi- ciency , corn , and solar - all adopted in the eyeblink of six months — sent my carbon dioxide emissions plummeting from 19,488 ...
... carbon dioxide emissions 50 per- cent , I had cut them by almost 90 percent . The combination of effi- ciency , corn , and solar - all adopted in the eyeblink of six months — sent my carbon dioxide emissions plummeting from 19,488 ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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