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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Major , major change is coming your way and it won ' t be pretty . Louisiana ' s
towering three feet of relative sea - level rise was mostly caused , as we ' ve seen
, by the land subsidence brought on by the strangling flood levees along the ...
Major , major change is coming your way and it won ' t be pretty . Louisiana ' s
towering three feet of relative sea - level rise was mostly caused , as we ' ve seen
, by the land subsidence brought on by the strangling flood levees along the ...
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But every forty to seventy years , a major storm does slam into the New York City
region . The great hurricane of 1821 passed right over Manhattan and basically
cut the city in two , with the Hudson and East Rivers merging all the way up to ...
But every forty to seventy years , a major storm does slam into the New York City
region . The great hurricane of 1821 passed right over Manhattan and basically
cut the city in two , with the Hudson and East Rivers merging all the way up to ...
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When three major peer - reviewed studies conclusively show that Katrina - scale
storms are growing more frequent worldwide , driven by the rising heat , our
government ' s policy is to prevent even a single paragraph about these studies
from ...
When three major peer - reviewed studies conclusively show that Katrina - scale
storms are growing more frequent worldwide , driven by the rising heat , our
government ' s policy is to prevent even a single paragraph about these studies
from ...
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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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