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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... farm just outside of Hancock , Maryland , has seen two hundred - year floods and four fifty - year floods just in the past ten years . In fact , watching Mike's farm gradually die at the hands of freakish , unprecedented weather is ...
... farm just outside of Hancock , Maryland , has seen two hundred - year floods and four fifty - year floods just in the past ten years . In fact , watching Mike's farm gradually die at the hands of freakish , unprecedented weather is ...
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... farm each year . " But I'm thinking of quitting farming for good , " Tabor says . “ Not because I don't love farming . I do . The weather's just making it harder and harder . The unpredictability is a major factor in my thoughts of ...
... farm each year . " But I'm thinking of quitting farming for good , " Tabor says . “ Not because I don't love farming . I do . The weather's just making it harder and harder . The unpredictability is a major factor in my thoughts of ...
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... farm practice — and the crop is raised using organic fertiliza- tion ( my farmer uses manure from his turkey farm ) . Like all plants , corn absorbs carbon dioxide from the air as it grows , and when I burn it later to heat my home it ...
... farm practice — and the crop is raised using organic fertiliza- tion ( my farmer uses manure from his turkey farm ) . Like all plants , corn absorbs carbon dioxide from the air as it grows , and when I burn it later to heat my home it ...
Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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