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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... forests full of live oaks and honey locusts , adorned with Span- ish moss and dwarf palmettos and creeping vines hanging from verdant upper canopies . Moving south , these forests gave way to vast freshwater marshes and swamps , with ...
... forests full of live oaks and honey locusts , adorned with Span- ish moss and dwarf palmettos and creeping vines hanging from verdant upper canopies . Moving south , these forests gave way to vast freshwater marshes and swamps , with ...
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... forest itself . But this pastoral system didn't last , explains Yale University histo- rian Conrad Totman in his book The Green Archipelago : Forestry in Pre- Industrial Japan . By A.D. 600 , Japan's forests came under pressure from ...
... forest itself . But this pastoral system didn't last , explains Yale University histo- rian Conrad Totman in his book The Green Archipelago : Forestry in Pre- Industrial Japan . By A.D. 600 , Japan's forests came under pressure from ...
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... forests were completely logged . Soil erosion , floods , mudslides , and barren farmland became common . A collapse like Easter Island seemed inevitable . But it didn't happen . The reality of increasingly harmed Japanese peasants led ...
... forests were completely logged . Soil erosion , floods , mudslides , and barren farmland became common . A collapse like Easter Island seemed inevitable . But it didn't happen . The reality of increasingly harmed Japanese peasants led ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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