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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... scientists could scurry across Antarctica and actually do science. In our case the science was a geological project that would increase the accuracy of dating the ancient sedimentary rocks that made up James Ross Island, a large bit of ...
... scientists could scurry across Antarctica and actually do science. In our case the science was a geological project that would increase the accuracy of dating the ancient sedimentary rocks that made up James Ross Island, a large bit of ...
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... scientists camped across the island from us later told us it was the most severe storm any of them had known in more than thirty years of annually coming to this part of the peninsula, with its sustained winds of 70 knots, and gusts far ...
... scientists camped across the island from us later told us it was the most severe storm any of them had known in more than thirty years of annually coming to this part of the peninsula, with its sustained winds of 70 knots, and gusts far ...
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... scientists worldwide had become alarmed enough that they scrambled to start regular meetings and, more important, begin the difficult job of convincing their national governments that this newest assault on civilization warranted action ...
... scientists worldwide had become alarmed enough that they scrambled to start regular meetings and, more important, begin the difficult job of convincing their national governments that this newest assault on civilization warranted action ...
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... Scientists seek to estimate how much of the ice resting on land surface is disappearing—or will disappear—into the oceans as the world warms. They compute this number from formulae linking mean global temperature to loss of ice—which ...
... Scientists seek to estimate how much of the ice resting on land surface is disappearing—or will disappear—into the oceans as the world warms. They compute this number from formulae linking mean global temperature to loss of ice—which ...
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