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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... melting of continental ice sheets.3 When snow falling in cold climes accumulates faster than it melts during the warm seasons, an ice sheet will form. All that water ultimately comes from the sea, so a growing ice sheet causes the level ...
... melting of continental ice sheets.3 When snow falling in cold climes accumulates faster than it melts during the warm seasons, an ice sheet will form. All that water ultimately comes from the sea, so a growing ice sheet causes the level ...
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... ice) occurred about 125,000 years ago, when a rapid melting of continental ice sheets and glaciers caused the sea level rise that led to the formation of reefs on now solid land. These sheets must have disappeared quickly indeed ...
... ice) occurred about 125,000 years ago, when a rapid melting of continental ice sheets and glaciers caused the sea level rise that led to the formation of reefs on now solid land. These sheets must have disappeared quickly indeed ...
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... ice is and will continue to melt faster than at any previous time. TELLING THE STORY OF THE FLOODED EARTH In this ... melts, not just fields will be flooded, but cities as well, and that is the subject of Chapter 6. Chapter 7 again looks back ...
... ice is and will continue to melt faster than at any previous time. TELLING THE STORY OF THE FLOODED EARTH In this ... melts, not just fields will be flooded, but cities as well, and that is the subject of Chapter 6. Chapter 7 again looks back ...
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... melting of the Greenland continental ice sheet— not the ice already floating in water, but the ice on land. This difference is crucial. We hear about the loss of Arctic sea ice. When that melts, sea level does not change. But the ice on ...
... melting of the Greenland continental ice sheet— not the ice already floating in water, but the ice on land. This difference is crucial. We hear about the loss of Arctic sea ice. When that melts, sea level does not change. But the ice on ...
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... melting 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 ...
... melting 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 ...
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