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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Orleans ; a direct line from the slaves with wheelbarrows bolstering nineteenth -
century levees to their descendants on the I - 10 overpass in 2005 ; from the
diesel - powered mechanical shovels of the twentieth century to the drowned
bodies ...
Orleans ; a direct line from the slaves with wheelbarrows bolstering nineteenth -
century levees to their descendants on the I - 10 overpass in 2005 ; from the
diesel - powered mechanical shovels of the twentieth century to the drowned
bodies ...
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By the year 2000 , the goods and services produced worldwide every twelve
months were equal to everything produced in the entire nineteenth century . To
keep up , global energy use roughly doubled every thirty years during much of
the ...
By the year 2000 , the goods and services produced worldwide every twelve
months were equal to everything produced in the entire nineteenth century . To
keep up , global energy use roughly doubled every thirty years during much of
the ...
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The water level in the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore rose about seven inches
over the last century thanks to global warming . This , combined with a moderate
amount of local land subsidence , forced the abandonment of thirteen inhabited ...
The water level in the Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore rose about seven inches
over the last century thanks to global warming . This , combined with a moderate
amount of local land subsidence , forced the abandonment of thirteen inhabited ...
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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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