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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... land platform of south Louisiana sinks naturally . It sinks a lot . Year after year . Historically , what has counterbalanced this sinking has been the deposit of new sediments from new flooding , so much so that net land building ...
... land platform of south Louisiana sinks naturally . It sinks a lot . Year after year . Historically , what has counterbalanced this sinking has been the deposit of new sediments from new flooding , so much so that net land building ...
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... land everyone continued to see ceased to be natural . It was now net land loss . There would be no more restorative flooding . The entire coast was vanishing . But for years even scientists didn't fully understand what was hap- pening ...
... land everyone continued to see ceased to be natural . It was now net land loss . There would be no more restorative flooding . The entire coast was vanishing . But for years even scientists didn't fully understand what was hap- pening ...
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... land loss was from industry canals . Not happy with these findings and fearing it would be heavily blamed and held financially responsible , the oil industry spent much of the 1970s challenging the science of land loss in south ...
... land loss was from industry canals . Not happy with these findings and fearing it would be heavily blamed and held financially responsible , the oil industry spent much of the 1970s challenging the science of land loss in south ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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