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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... agriculture in South Florida at all. The rising 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 ...
... agriculture in South Florida at all. The rising 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 ...
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... agricultural humanity has gone through. As a paleontologist who has had to professionally study the effects of rising and falling sea level from far more ancient times than the time of humanity, I know that we are not merely speculating ...
... agricultural humanity has gone through. As a paleontologist who has had to professionally study the effects of rising and falling sea level from far more ancient times than the time of humanity, I know that we are not merely speculating ...
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... agricultural yields. In Chapter 5 I examine the confluence of global temperature increase and the makeup of continental ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, which hold the greatest volume of potentially meltable frozen water on the ...
... agricultural yields. In Chapter 5 I examine the confluence of global temperature increase and the makeup of continental ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, which hold the greatest volume of potentially meltable frozen water on the ...
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... agriculture, and the equally calamitous flooding of coastal cities, and, if we cannot do that, how we might at least buy civilization more time by slowing the rate of rise. There is hope, if we act now. But the train is leaving the ...
... agriculture, and the equally calamitous flooding of coastal cities, and, if we cannot do that, how we might at least buy civilization more time by slowing the rate of rise. There is hope, if we act now. But the train is leaving the ...
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... agricultural times, then pinning down the exact time it happened. With the advent of new dating techniques, however, as well as a far more sophisticated means to interpret the ancient sedimentary record, the mystery of at least some of ...
... agricultural times, then pinning down the exact time it happened. With the advent of new dating techniques, however, as well as a far more sophisticated means to interpret the ancient sedimentary record, the mystery of at least some of ...
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