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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So began nearly three centuries of human struggle against the third - longest
river on earth . Using simple shovels and pack animals , French engineers
constructed rudimentary dikes , no more than two or three feet high , along the
river ' s ...
So began nearly three centuries of human struggle against the third - longest
river on earth . Using simple shovels and pack animals , French engineers
constructed rudimentary dikes , no more than two or three feet high , along the
river ' s ...
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trations — all agreed during a gathering in Washington that global warming was
a real problem and that human beings were driving it through fossil fuel
combustion . But the biggest climate warning of all since the Katrina disaster
comes from ...
trations — all agreed during a gathering in Washington that global warming was
a real problem and that human beings were driving it through fossil fuel
combustion . But the biggest climate warning of all since the Katrina disaster
comes from ...
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By the mid - nineties , they said , well , it looks like the planet is warming , but
humans aren ' t causing it and besides it ' s ... mouthed by the president : The
planet is warming , human beings are definitely involved , the impacts are going
to hurt ...
By the mid - nineties , they said , well , it looks like the planet is warming , but
humans aren ' t causing it and besides it ' s ... mouthed by the president : The
planet is warming , human beings are definitely involved , the impacts are going
to hurt ...
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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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