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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Sadly , it took working - class Louisiana fishermen , many of them classroom
dropouts , to school me in the root causes of ... Each spring , heavy rains across
America would cause the river to jump its banks near its mouth and deposit that
liquid ...
Sadly , it took working - class Louisiana fishermen , many of them classroom
dropouts , to school me in the root causes of ... Each spring , heavy rains across
America would cause the river to jump its banks near its mouth and deposit that
liquid ...
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The most detailed account of both the causes and solutions associated with land
loss came with the publication of my book Bayou Farewell in ... A major hurricane
approaching from the right direction could cause tens of thousands of deaths .
The most detailed account of both the causes and solutions associated with land
loss came with the publication of my book Bayou Farewell in ... A major hurricane
approaching from the right direction could cause tens of thousands of deaths .
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Among the many disturbing impacts projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change is this one : Global warming will cause the world ' s oceans to
rise somewhere between one and three feet above current levels by 2100 .
Among the many disturbing impacts projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change is this one : Global warming will cause the world ' s oceans to
rise somewhere between one and three feet above current levels by 2100 .
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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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