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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... scientists had detected enough warming and arctic ice - melt and rising sea levels that an international conference was held in Geneva , Switzerland , to discuss the matter . But human - induced cli- mate change was still a “ theory ...
... scientists had detected enough warming and arctic ice - melt and rising sea levels that an international conference was held in Geneva , Switzerland , to discuss the matter . But human - induced cli- mate change was still a “ theory ...
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... scientists were even more severe . “ It seems more like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than the United States ” at NOAA , Hansen said . NOAA is widely considered the nation's leading science agency . Among its many vital offices are ...
... scientists were even more severe . “ It seems more like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union than the United States ” at NOAA , Hansen said . NOAA is widely considered the nation's leading science agency . Among its many vital offices are ...
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... scientists at the University of Rhode Island in March 2006. He went on to pinpoint the real problem . " Scientists at NOAA have been told there is a gag order on [ discussing the impact of ] global warming . A U.S. government ...
... scientists at the University of Rhode Island in March 2006. He went on to pinpoint the real problem . " Scientists at NOAA have been told there is a gag order on [ discussing the impact of ] global warming . A U.S. government ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
The Real Reason Katrina Happened | 7 |
Ignoring the Warning Signs in Louisiana | 20 |
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