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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... miles inland , and forty - one of sixty - four Louisiana parishes were with- out electricity . Rita's impact was so broad that the surge tide re - flooded New Orleans , two hundred miles to the east , and toppled levees throughout ...
... miles inland , and forty - one of sixty - four Louisiana parishes were with- out electricity . Rita's impact was so broad that the surge tide re - flooded New Orleans , two hundred miles to the east , and toppled levees throughout ...
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... miles north in 2001 due to lack of snow - to the monumental — the eight - hundred - mile - long Trans- Alaska Pipeline is now at risk from global warming . New York Times re- porter Timothy Egan wrote in 2002 : Engineers responsible for ...
... miles north in 2001 due to lack of snow - to the monumental — the eight - hundred - mile - long Trans- Alaska Pipeline is now at risk from global warming . New York Times re- porter Timothy Egan wrote in 2002 : Engineers responsible for ...
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... miles north of Barrow in September 2004. As many as 36 others may have died as the bears apparently tried to swim south to solid land after the arctic ice shelf receded an astonishing 160 miles to the north . Polar bears are as strong ...
... miles north of Barrow in September 2004. As many as 36 others may have died as the bears apparently tried to swim south to solid land after the arctic ice shelf receded an astonishing 160 miles to the north . Polar bears are as strong ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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