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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... glaciers, was just one of many that made up the ice ages. An even more significant change in climate (and in the amount of the world's ice) occurred about 125,000 years ago, when a rapid melting of continental ice sheets and glaciers ...
... glaciers, was just one of many that made up the ice ages. An even more significant change in climate (and in the amount of the world's ice) occurred about 125,000 years ago, when a rapid melting of continental ice sheets and glaciers ...
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... glaciers—the background noise is akin to living near a freeway. It was this noise, as much as any, that brought me up from the depths of sleep, but shallow depths as always; slumber in Antarctica is a eutrophic lake of troubled dreams ...
... glaciers—the background noise is akin to living near a freeway. It was this noise, as much as any, that brought me up from the depths of sleep, but shallow depths as always; slumber in Antarctica is a eutrophic lake of troubled dreams ...
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... glaciers is fast compared to tectonic rates.) The alarming aspect of this otherwise normal effect on the earth is that today's predictions of sea level increase all appear to be too conservative. What makes things alarming is that this ...
... glaciers is fast compared to tectonic rates.) The alarming aspect of this otherwise normal effect on the earth is that today's predictions of sea level increase all appear to be too conservative. What makes things alarming is that this ...
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... glaciers in lower latitudes. All that water had to go somewhere—and it ended up in the global ocean, causing it to rise, and sending water spilling into the lake that became the Black Sea. Noah and the geological record tell us that sea ...
... glaciers in lower latitudes. All that water had to go somewhere—and it ended up in the global ocean, causing it to rise, and sending water spilling into the lake that became the Black Sea. Noah and the geological record tell us that sea ...
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... glaciers and ice caps—excluding the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, which are so important that they merit their own modeling. Scientists seek to estimate how much of the ice resting on land surface is disappearing—or will ...
... glaciers and ice caps—excluding the great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, which are so important that they merit their own modeling. Scientists seek to estimate how much of the ice resting on land surface is disappearing—or will ...
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