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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... decades of economic chaos, social displacement, and political breakdown. America was in a state of triage. The nation's leaders had to decide which American coastal cities to fight for, and which to surrender to the rising waters. Miami ...
... decades of economic chaos, social displacement, and political breakdown. America was in a state of triage. The nation's leaders had to decide which American coastal cities to fight for, and which to surrender to the rising waters. Miami ...
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... decades, and this Florida reef tract was one of the first to experience what would become known as coral bleaching. The Florida sea was home to another American coral reef whose condition is a veritable graduate course in the effects of ...
... decades, and this Florida reef tract was one of the first to experience what would become known as coral bleaching. The Florida sea was home to another American coral reef whose condition is a veritable graduate course in the effects of ...
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... decades for a simple reason: the entire Mesozoic Era, including the freak collision of a large asteroid in Mexico's Yucatan region that brought the period to a fiery end, was a time of elevated carbon dioxide. Atmospheric levels of this ...
... decades for a simple reason: the entire Mesozoic Era, including the freak collision of a large asteroid in Mexico's Yucatan region that brought the period to a fiery end, was a time of elevated carbon dioxide. Atmospheric levels of this ...
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... decades. The theory had to be right: even Hollywood had taken notice by making two blockbuster movies about an asteroid striking the earth—both of them, shall we say, smash hits. In fact, the Alvarez asteroid-impact hypothesis—that the ...
... decades. The theory had to be right: even Hollywood had taken notice by making two blockbuster movies about an asteroid striking the earth—both of them, shall we say, smash hits. In fact, the Alvarez asteroid-impact hypothesis—that the ...
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