The Flooded Earth: Our Future In a World Without Ice CapsBasic Books, 29.06.2010 - 272 Seiten Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. This -- not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves -- will be the most catastrophic effect of global warming. And it won't simply redraw our coastlines -- agriculture, electrical and fiber optic systems, and shipping will be changed forever. As icebound regions melt, new sources of oil, gas, minerals, and arable land will be revealed, as will fierce geopolitical battles over who owns the rights to them. In The Flooded Earth, species extinction expert Peter Ward describes in intricate detail what our world will look like in 2050, 2100, 2300, and beyond -- a blueprint for a foreseeable future. Ward also explains what politicians and policymakers around the world should be doing now to head off the worst consequences of an inevitable transformation. |
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... Level 121 Flooding of Coastal Countries and Cities Extinction? Stopping Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Notes References Index 13 39 91 149 177 195 219 235 251 MIAMI BEACHED Miami, 2120 CE. Carbon dioxide at 800 ppm. | vii Contents.
... Level 121 Flooding of Coastal Countries and Cities Extinction? Stopping Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Notes References Index 13 39 91 149 177 195 219 235 251 MIAMI BEACHED Miami, 2120 CE. Carbon dioxide at 800 ppm. | vii Contents.
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... country, and thus a place of no relevance at all to the present. But for more than two centuries the key principle of geology has held that the changes occurring in the past are composed of processes that continue today. This is known ...
... country, and thus a place of no relevance at all to the present. But for more than two centuries the key principle of geology has held that the changes occurring in the past are composed of processes that continue today. This is known ...
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... countries on that map on the schoolroom wall, but the world's continental configurations were imprinted on our young brains. We knew the outlines of the great landmasses, the larger islands, the overall Rorschach-like inkblots of green ...
... countries on that map on the schoolroom wall, but the world's continental configurations were imprinted on our young brains. We knew the outlines of the great landmasses, the larger islands, the overall Rorschach-like inkblots of green ...
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... country. These results squared with other evidence about the ice core and with other paleoclimate data, all of which agreed that much of southern Greenland had been entirely deglaciated—it was bare rock where today a giant lid of ice ...
... country. These results squared with other evidence about the ice core and with other paleoclimate data, all of which agreed that much of southern Greenland had been entirely deglaciated—it was bare rock where today a giant lid of ice ...
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