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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... north it was still contiguous with the vast peninsula that had been Florida, the flooding had cut off all freeway and railroad ties, while the airport itself was now a vast lake. All this was because the level of the world's oceans had ...
... north it was still contiguous with the vast peninsula that had been Florida, the flooding had cut off all freeway and railroad ties, while the airport itself was now a vast lake. All this was because the level of the world's oceans had ...
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... North Dakota, a place as far from the ocean as any place in North America—as remote, in fact, as almost any place on Earth. But a glance at the geological record of the North Dakota badlands shows that this part of the planet was once ...
... North Dakota, a place as far from the ocean as any place in North America—as remote, in fact, as almost any place on Earth. But a glance at the geological record of the North Dakota badlands shows that this part of the planet was once ...
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... North America thus tell us something profound. This far inland was once shallow ocean. It was part of the great ... North American inland sea was hundreds of feet deep and hundreds of miles across. It separated eastern North America from ...
... North America thus tell us something profound. This far inland was once shallow ocean. It was part of the great ... North American inland sea was hundreds of feet deep and hundreds of miles across. It separated eastern North America from ...
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... North Dakotan beds. That place is in a small quarry tucked into one of southern Florida's famous line of islands: the Florida Keys. If you go down to Key Largo and don a mask and fins in John Pennekamp State Park—the first underwater ...
... North Dakotan beds. That place is in a small quarry tucked into one of southern Florida's famous line of islands: the Florida Keys. If you go down to Key Largo and don a mask and fins in John Pennekamp State Park—the first underwater ...
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... North or South poles some 66 million to 70 million years ago.2 That possibility had seemed laughable in recent decades for a simple reason: the entire Mesozoic Era, including the freak collision of a large asteroid in Mexico's Yucatan ...
... North or South poles some 66 million to 70 million years ago.2 That possibility had seemed laughable in recent decades for a simple reason: the entire Mesozoic Era, including the freak collision of a large asteroid in Mexico's Yucatan ...
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