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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It ' s a twenty - ton corn granary , full of organically fertilized , Maryland - raised
corn . Every few weeks during the winter , a Mennonite farmer forty miles away
dispatches a feed truck to refill this two - story - tall , cylindrical granary . Then , in
the ...
It ' s a twenty - ton corn granary , full of organically fertilized , Maryland - raised
corn . Every few weeks during the winter , a Mennonite farmer forty miles away
dispatches a feed truck to refill this two - story - tall , cylindrical granary . Then , in
the ...
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But the granary would cost money : $ 2 , 000 for the structure itself , another $ 2 ,
000 for the concrete pad to set it on . Taxpayers could not be expected to pay this
bill , city leaders said . And although this urban granary would create a badly ...
But the granary would cost money : $ 2 , 000 for the structure itself , another $ 2 ,
000 for the concrete pad to set it on . Taxpayers could not be expected to pay this
bill , city leaders said . And although this urban granary would create a badly ...
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These new community granaries will complement the corn supplier up in
Baltimore who has already set up his own ... further by constantly rising natural
gas prices and by intensifying fears about global warming As for the first granary ,
in ...
These new community granaries will complement the corn supplier up in
Baltimore who has already set up his own ... further by constantly rising natural
gas prices and by intensifying fears about global warming As for the first granary ,
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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