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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All told , at least five thousand Houma Indians and thousands of Vietnamese
Americans and hundreds of thousands of Cajuns — people I wrote about in
Bayou Farewell — were more or less wiped out by the twin hurricanes .
Louisiana ' s ...
All told , at least five thousand Houma Indians and thousands of Vietnamese
Americans and hundreds of thousands of Cajuns — people I wrote about in
Bayou Farewell — were more or less wiped out by the twin hurricanes .
Louisiana ' s ...
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This “ environmental abundance ” eventually sustained a society of up to thirty
thousand people so advanced they produced hundreds of enormous stone
statues that centuries later still inspire awe worldwide . But by 1722 , when the
first ...
This “ environmental abundance ” eventually sustained a society of up to thirty
thousand people so advanced they produced hundreds of enormous stone
statues that centuries later still inspire awe worldwide . But by 1722 , when the
first ...
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The permafrost , which for thousands of years kept the soil frozen up to two
thousand feet below the surface , is now thawing . It ' s no longer “ permanent . ”
As a result , roads all across the region now heave and dip and break apart from
the ...
The permafrost , which for thousands of years kept the soil frozen up to two
thousand feet below the surface , is now thawing . It ' s no longer “ permanent . ”
As a result , roads all across the region now heave and dip and break apart from
the ...
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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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