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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... coast . This unforgiving phenomenon — subsidence — also finally ex- plains the very weird and perplexing fact that most of the city of New Orleans is below sea level . In the weeks after Katrina I was utterly amazed at how the media ...
... coast . This unforgiving phenomenon — subsidence — also finally ex- plains the very weird and perplexing fact that most of the city of New Orleans is below sea level . In the weeks after Katrina I was utterly amazed at how the media ...
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... coast as a Category 3 , with a ten - foot surge tide that left Hiroshima - like scenes in Cameron , Holly Beach , Erath , and elsewhere . When the water finally receded , caskets were hanging in trees , shrimp boats were in sugarcane ...
... coast as a Category 3 , with a ten - foot surge tide that left Hiroshima - like scenes in Cameron , Holly Beach , Erath , and elsewhere . When the water finally receded , caskets were hanging in trees , shrimp boats were in sugarcane ...
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... Coast 2050 plan , to restore Louisiana's shores . The problem , before Katrina hit , was simply the price tag : $ 14 billion . Though equal to just six weeks of spending in the Iraq war or the cost of the " Big Dig " tunnel project in ...
... Coast 2050 plan , to restore Louisiana's shores . The problem , before Katrina hit , was simply the price tag : $ 14 billion . Though equal to just six weeks of spending in the Iraq war or the cost of the " Big Dig " tunnel project in ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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