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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... change that the level of atmospheric oxygen over Florida had undergone a ... sea had “only” risen 10 feet in South Florida by 2120. But the rise was ... sea level rise in 2100, or even 2200 (and not 2075 or earlier), the effects will be ...
... change that the level of atmospheric oxygen over Florida had undergone a ... sea had “only” risen 10 feet in South Florida by 2120. But the rise was ... sea level rise in 2100, or even 2200 (and not 2075 or earlier), the effects will be ...
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... sea level comes from what we have discovered about the very old rises and falls of the sea. Recent studies of the deep past have told us much about how the earth and its life have responded to changes in sea level. Such changes in the sea ...
... sea level comes from what we have discovered about the very old rises and falls of the sea. Recent studies of the deep past have told us much about how the earth and its life have responded to changes in sea level. Such changes in the sea ...
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... changes in size. It is like putting a large brick in a bathtub; the level of the water rises. Conversely, with a loss of heat, the mid-ocean ridge is reduced in size, and the water level declines globally. The rate of change of sea level ...
... changes in size. It is like putting a large brick in a bathtub; the level of the water rises. Conversely, with a loss of heat, the mid-ocean ridge is reduced in size, and the water level declines globally. The rate of change of sea level ...
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... change in the appearance and type of the fossil content as the strata ... level of the global ocean. Thus, while the dinosaur beds of the great American West were deposited on land, they in fact sit atop the remains of the vast inland sea ...
... change in the appearance and type of the fossil content as the strata ... level of the global ocean. Thus, while the dinosaur beds of the great American West were deposited on land, they in fact sit atop the remains of the vast inland sea ...
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... change in sea level can be vast, but also that such change can happen very, very quickly compared to those stony, primeval North Dakotan beds. That place is in a small quarry tucked into one of southern Florida's famous line of islands ...
... change in sea level can be vast, but also that such change can happen very, very quickly compared to those stony, primeval North Dakotan beds. That place is in a small quarry tucked into one of southern Florida's famous line of islands ...
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