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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... crisis , and lacked credibility condemning the federal government for a lack of
evacuation buses when more than one hundred local school buses , meant for
the same purpose , were underwater in New Orleans , having never been moved
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... crisis , and lacked credibility condemning the federal government for a lack of
evacuation buses when more than one hundred local school buses , meant for
the same purpose , were underwater in New Orleans , having never been moved
.
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It would take what storm experts call a “ hundred - year ” surge tide . That storm
would have to be so huge it could push a wall of water past the Atlantic barrier
islands and past the Chesapeake Bay islands of Smith and Tangier and up and
over ...
It would take what storm experts call a “ hundred - year ” surge tide . That storm
would have to be so huge it could push a wall of water past the Atlantic barrier
islands and past the Chesapeake Bay islands of Smith and Tangier and up and
over ...
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Nearly thirteen hundred people died in Louisiana and the economic loss
exceeds $ 200 billion — not because of eighty feet of sea - level rise or twenty -
three feet , but because the ocean rose just three feet higher relative to the land .
Over a ...
Nearly thirteen hundred people died in Louisiana and the economic loss
exceeds $ 200 billion — not because of eighty feet of sea - level rise or twenty -
three feet , but because the ocean rose just three feet higher relative to the land .
Over a ...
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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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