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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... land that remained of it—had become a strange new entity, a variant of the old citystates of ancient Greece, but with its own peculiar problems.1 The sea, annually emboldened by hurricanes, had transformed the city entirely over the ...
... land that remained of it—had become a strange new entity, a variant of the old citystates of ancient Greece, but with its own peculiar problems.1 The sea, annually emboldened by hurricanes, had transformed the city entirely over the ...
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... land geography as well, have sometimes been a boon to life, but sometimes they have led to quite the opposite effect, the most extreme being mass extinction. History, then, opens one door to the explorations we will make in this book ...
... land geography as well, have sometimes been a boon to life, but sometimes they have led to quite the opposite effect, the most extreme being mass extinction. History, then, opens one door to the explorations we will make in this book ...
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... land had been. The fossils of these darker beds have a spectacular beauty. The most common are the beautifully iridescent fossil shells of ammonites, now extinct cephalopods whose nearest living relative is the chambered nautilus of the ...
... land had been. The fossils of these darker beds have a spectacular beauty. The most common are the beautifully iridescent fossil shells of ammonites, now extinct cephalopods whose nearest living relative is the chambered nautilus of the ...
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... land had not gone up. The sea had gone down. Somehow the level of the oceans—not just here in Florida, but all over ... land. These sheets must have disappeared quickly indeed, causing the world's oceans to rise and encroach on the land ...
... land had not gone up. The sea had gone down. Somehow the level of the oceans—not just here in Florida, but all over ... land. These sheets must have disappeared quickly indeed, causing the world's oceans to rise and encroach on the land ...
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... land near the end of the arc-shaped Antarctic Peninsula. We had come to collect marine fossils from near, during, and after the age of dinosaurs, with its fiery conclusion hypothesized to have attended the end of a particular asteroid's ...
... land near the end of the arc-shaped Antarctic Peninsula. We had come to collect marine fossils from near, during, and after the age of dinosaurs, with its fiery conclusion hypothesized to have attended the end of a particular asteroid's ...
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