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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... scientific body , the National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) , to review the findings of the IPCC's two - thousand - plus scholars and get to the bottom , once and for all , of this " three to ten degrees of warming " business . The ...
... scientific body , the National Academy of Sciences ( NAS ) , to review the findings of the IPCC's two - thousand - plus scholars and get to the bottom , once and for all , of this " three to ten degrees of warming " business . The ...
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... scientific evidence that even the skep- tics couldn't deny , they switched yet again , adopting the current farce now mouthed by the president : The planet is warming , human beings are definitely involved , the impacts are going to ...
... scientific evidence that even the skep- tics couldn't deny , they switched yet again , adopting the current farce now mouthed by the president : The planet is warming , human beings are definitely involved , the impacts are going to ...
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... scientific training whatsoever , would change the wording of key pas- sages to create a tone that minimized the significance of the climate data and created a sense of uncertainty around various scientific con- clusions where none ...
... scientific training whatsoever , would change the wording of key pas- sages to create a tone that minimized the significance of the climate data and created a sense of uncertainty around various scientific con- clusions where none ...
Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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