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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... cause the world's oceans to rise somewhere between one and three feet above current levels by 2100. These are ... caused , as we've seen , by the land subsidence brought on by the stran- gling flood levees along the Mississippi River ...
... cause the world's oceans to rise somewhere between one and three feet above current levels by 2100. These are ... caused , as we've seen , by the land subsidence brought on by the stran- gling flood levees along the Mississippi River ...
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... cause I read about it in a book . Not because it's a nice theory . I know it because I've already done it . THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION , of course , views matters entirely dif- ferently . On the plus side , the president no longer ...
... cause I read about it in a book . Not because it's a nice theory . I know it because I've already done it . THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION , of course , views matters entirely dif- ferently . On the plus side , the president no longer ...
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... cause of the con- cern . After years of precious time lost " debating " the avalanche of unim- peachable scientific ... cause it makes sense . Not because it's good policy . He says all this be- cause he's an oil man . The solution to ...
... cause of the con- cern . After years of precious time lost " debating " the avalanche of unim- peachable scientific ... cause it makes sense . Not because it's good policy . He says all this be- cause he's an oil man . The solution to ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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