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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... salt marshes that now encircled the city from southwest to northwest, effectively making Miami its own island. Miami International Airport was long gone (although its runways were still visible from the air, just under the clear water) ...
... salt marshes that now encircled the city from southwest to northwest, effectively making Miami its own island. Miami International Airport was long gone (although its runways were still visible from the air, just under the clear water) ...
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... salt water into the normal aquifers and reservoirs, bankrupted the city. The federal government, with so many problems elsewhere, gave the city up as well. One relatively minor commercial decision destroyed the region's entire economic ...
... salt water into the normal aquifers and reservoirs, bankrupted the city. The federal government, with so many problems elsewhere, gave the city up as well. One relatively minor commercial decision destroyed the region's entire economic ...
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... salt levels in the soil saw to that. But perhaps the greatest change to the entire region lay to the west of Miami. Visible from the diminishing, still functioning satellites (Cape Canaveral had been leveled by the great hurricane of ...
... salt levels in the soil saw to that. But perhaps the greatest change to the entire region lay to the west of Miami. Visible from the diminishing, still functioning satellites (Cape Canaveral had been leveled by the great hurricane of ...
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... salt water.12 The rise of the Black Sea could only have occurred by flooding from the global ocean in some way. Somehow the waters of the nearest ocean, the Mediterranean (and by extension the Atlantic Ocean), made their way into the ...
... salt water.12 The rise of the Black Sea could only have occurred by flooding from the global ocean in some way. Somehow the waters of the nearest ocean, the Mediterranean (and by extension the Atlantic Ocean), made their way into the ...
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... salt intrusion, where saltenriched water seeps sideways into the soil, ruining it for human crops or even native vegetation. The loss of arable land alone from these two processes guarantees massive famine on an unprecedented scale ...
... salt intrusion, where saltenriched water seeps sideways into the soil, ruining it for human crops or even native vegetation. The loss of arable land alone from these two processes guarantees massive famine on an unprecedented scale ...
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