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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... increase in sea level comes from what we have discovered about the very old rises and falls of the sea. Recent studies of the deep past have told us much about how the earth and its life have responded to changes in sea level. Such ...
... increase in sea level comes from what we have discovered about the very old rises and falls of the sea. Recent studies of the deep past have told us much about how the earth and its life have responded to changes in sea level. Such ...
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... increases, it causes the rocks of the ridge itself to swell, decreasing the volume of the basins that hold the world's oceans. The amount of water stays the same—just the worldwide vessel holding those oceans changes in size. It is like ...
... increases, it causes the rocks of the ridge itself to swell, decreasing the volume of the basins that hold the world's oceans. The amount of water stays the same—just the worldwide vessel holding those oceans changes in size. It is like ...
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... increase. A short distance from Key Largo is the smaller Lone Pine Key. At one side is a flattened area that looks the entire world like an abandoned quarry (which it was). You are greeted by a mass of white rocks blazing in the sun. Up ...
... increase. A short distance from Key Largo is the smaller Lone Pine Key. At one side is a flattened area that looks the entire world like an abandoned quarry (which it was). You are greeted by a mass of white rocks blazing in the sun. Up ...
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... this magnitude happened so quickly. Now all evidence suggests that a similar rise is beginning. When the world warms, ice melts. When ice melts, the sea rises. It is this second kind of increase in sea Introduction: Miami Beached | 9.
... this magnitude happened so quickly. Now all evidence suggests that a similar rise is beginning. When the world warms, ice melts. When ice melts, the sea rises. It is this second kind of increase in sea Introduction: Miami Beached | 9.
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... increase in sea level will dramatically affect world 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 ...
... increase in sea level will dramatically affect world 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 ...
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