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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Motivated explicitly by climate concerns , America ' s thirdlargest chemical maker
has since the early 1990s cut its aggregate greenhouse gas emissions 50
percent below 1990 levels while simultaneously increasing production volume
36 ...
Motivated explicitly by climate concerns , America ' s thirdlargest chemical maker
has since the early 1990s cut its aggregate greenhouse gas emissions 50
percent below 1990 levels while simultaneously increasing production volume
36 ...
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The same cap - and - trade technique that has worked so well in reducing sulfur
emissions from U . S . power plants was , at the insistence of the Clinton
administration in 1997 , made a cornerstone of the Kyoto mechanism for reducing
CO2 .
The same cap - and - trade technique that has worked so well in reducing sulfur
emissions from U . S . power plants was , at the insistence of the Clinton
administration in 1997 , made a cornerstone of the Kyoto mechanism for reducing
CO2 .
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... 178 sugarcane ethanol , 117 , 130 suicides , 44 sulfur emissions , 155
Superdome , 22 , 24 , 27 , 171 superstition , science vs . , 42 - 43 SUVs , 126
switch grass , 130 - 31 , 137 Symons , Jeremy , 146 Syria , 113 carbon dioxide
emissions in ...
... 178 sugarcane ethanol , 117 , 130 suicides , 44 sulfur emissions , 155
Superdome , 22 , 24 , 27 , 171 superstition , science vs . , 42 - 43 SUVs , 126
switch grass , 130 - 31 , 137 Symons , Jeremy , 146 Syria , 113 carbon dioxide
emissions in ...
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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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