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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The IPCC ' s projection of one to three feet of sea - level rise takes into account
this melting ice but assumes that the Greenland ice sheet will remain more or
less intact , melting peripherally but not collapsing entirely and sliding into the
ocean ...
The IPCC ' s projection of one to three feet of sea - level rise takes into account
this melting ice but assumes that the Greenland ice sheet will remain more or
less intact , melting peripherally but not collapsing entirely and sliding into the
ocean ...
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... long before Katrina hit , I had pushed a similar flood button for coastal
Louisiana . It was on a website run by a Louisiana conservation group , and it
showed not what would happen from three feet of water rising over the next
hundred years .
... long before Katrina hit , I had pushed a similar flood button for coastal
Louisiana . It was on a website run by a Louisiana conservation group , and it
showed not what would happen from three feet of water rising over the next
hundred years .
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In an eyeblink , the runways of La Guardia and JFK Airports will be under
eighteen feet or more of water . Compounding matters is the fact that New York
sits on an extremely shallow continental shelf , which causes any surge to pile up
on itself ...
In an eyeblink , the runways of La Guardia and JFK Airports will be under
eighteen feet or more of water . Compounding matters is the fact that New York
sits on an extremely shallow continental shelf , which causes any surge to pile up
on itself ...
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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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