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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... Carbon Dioxide The Flood of Humans 69 1 Feeding Humanity Amid Rising Sea Level Greenland, Antarctica, and Sea Level 121 Flooding of Coastal Countries and Cities Extinction? Stopping Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Notes References Index 13 ...
... Carbon Dioxide The Flood of Humans 69 1 Feeding Humanity Amid Rising Sea Level Greenland, Antarctica, and Sea Level 121 Flooding of Coastal Countries and Cities Extinction? Stopping Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Notes References Index 13 ...
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... Carbon dioxide at 800 ppm. M. iami had become an open city. It was also an island. Although to the north it was still contiguous with the vast peninsula that had been Florida, the flooding had cut off all freeway and railroad ties, while ...
... Carbon dioxide at 800 ppm. M. iami had become an open city. It was also an island. Although to the north it was still contiguous with the vast peninsula that had been Florida, the flooding had cut off all freeway and railroad ties, while ...
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... carbon dioxide—what it is, what it does, and how it contributes to the so-called greenhouse effect and global temperatures. It is the amount of carbon dioxide that is most pertinent to global climate, and every single human on the ...
... carbon dioxide—what it is, what it does, and how it contributes to the so-called greenhouse effect and global temperatures. It is the amount of carbon dioxide that is most pertinent to global climate, and every single human on the ...
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... carbon dioxide at 385 ppm. T. here is no mistaking the sound of melting ice in Antarctica. From the pattering of individual drips to the strange groaning of the small floating slag ice—the near-final fragments of the calving glaciers—the ...
... carbon dioxide at 385 ppm. T. here is no mistaking the sound of melting ice in Antarctica. From the pattering of individual drips to the strange groaning of the small floating slag ice—the near-final fragments of the calving glaciers—the ...
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... carbon dioxide. But could it have happened? Finding the answer to this question is of enormous importance. Perhaps—just perhaps—there could be much higher carbon dioxide than there is today without the resultant melting of the ice 14 ...
... carbon dioxide. But could it have happened? Finding the answer to this question is of enormous importance. Perhaps—just perhaps—there could be much higher carbon dioxide than there is today without the resultant melting of the ice 14 ...
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