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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... estimate for 2100 keeps rising. By that time anything less than 5 to 6 feet will be welcome, for the alternatives—up to 8 feet—cannot be borne by society. They are predictable because the planet's waters have risen before, even during 4 ...
... estimate for 2100 keeps rising. By that time anything less than 5 to 6 feet will be welcome, for the alternatives—up to 8 feet—cannot be borne by society. They are predictable because the planet's waters have risen before, even during 4 ...
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... estimated to be 10 millimeters per year, which will help minimize the effects of sea level rise. Oceans rise more in some places than in others.9 Although we intuitively consider an upsurge in sea level to be a global phenomenon ...
... estimated to be 10 millimeters per year, which will help minimize the effects of sea level rise. Oceans rise more in some places than in others.9 Although we intuitively consider an upsurge in sea level to be a global phenomenon ...
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... estimated that more than a million Web sites discuss the issue, many of them proposing their own guesses. While plenty of ... estimates of sea level rise, and how do we assess them? The best data at hand come from careful measurements of ...
... estimated that more than a million Web sites discuss the issue, many of them proposing their own guesses. While plenty of ... estimates of sea level rise, and how do we assess them? The best data at hand come from careful measurements of ...
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... estimates of sea level change are part of this resulting explosion of information—much of it contradictory. Yet the various recent estimates of sea level change mostly seem to discount the observations made from deep time—of changes so ...
... estimates of sea level change are part of this resulting explosion of information—much of it contradictory. Yet the various recent estimates of sea level change mostly seem to discount the observations made from deep time—of changes so ...
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... estimates. It is probably safe to say that while the estimates are accompanied by weaseling about high and low possibilities away from the mean estimate itself, surely a dose of conservatism enters into the projections. No one wants to ...
... estimates. It is probably safe to say that while the estimates are accompanied by weaseling about high and low possibilities away from the mean estimate itself, surely a dose of conservatism enters into the projections. No one wants to ...
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