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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... caused the city to finally lose all semblances of municipal freshwater and sewage systems in 2106. Without freshwater from any kind of municipal system, Miamians resorted to other means. Personal swimming pools became personal ...
... caused the city to finally lose all semblances of municipal freshwater and sewage systems in 2106. Without freshwater from any kind of municipal system, Miamians resorted to other means. Personal swimming pools became personal ...
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... causes the level of the sea to drop. The opposite process also occurs: a melting ice sheet causes sea level to rise. Long before the modern era, a time when humans began to play their own role in climate change, the seas rose and fell ...
... causes the level of the sea to drop. The opposite process also occurs: a melting ice sheet causes sea level to rise. Long before the modern era, a time when humans began to play their own role in climate change, the seas rose and fell ...
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... caused by a rise in sea level. In this case it was not the melting of ice that raised the water, but that slight shrinkage of the volume of the ocean basins described above. At its high-water mark in the Cretaceous Period between 125 ...
... caused by a rise in sea level. In this case it was not the melting of ice that raised the water, but that slight shrinkage of the volume of the ocean basins described above. At its high-water mark in the Cretaceous Period between 125 ...
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... caused the sea level rise that led to the formation of reefs on now solid land. These sheets must have disappeared quickly indeed, causing the world's oceans to rise and encroach on the land, carrying sea creatures with them.5 It was ...
... caused the sea level rise that led to the formation of reefs on now solid land. These sheets must have disappeared quickly indeed, causing the world's oceans to rise and encroach on the land, carrying sea creatures with them.5 It was ...
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... caused by slow changes in the oceans' volume as the immense sea bottoms swelled or shrank in tune with the vicissitudes of deep-earth heating. Yet near the end of the Cretaceous period, the rise and fall of the sea, as evidenced in ...
... caused by slow changes in the oceans' volume as the immense sea bottoms swelled or shrank in tune with the vicissitudes of deep-earth heating. Yet near the end of the Cretaceous period, the rise and fall of the sea, as evidenced in ...
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