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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... millions of years—but nonetheless significant over time. The second method of change in sea level happens faster, coming from the accumulation or melting of continental ice ... million to 65 million years ago, and 6 | THE FLOODED EARTH.
... millions of years—but nonetheless significant over time. The second method of change in sea level happens faster, coming from the accumulation or melting of continental ice ... million to 65 million years ago, and 6 | THE FLOODED EARTH.
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Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps Peter D Ward. from about 68 million to 65 million years ago, and these rocks contain the most famous of all fossils, Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as its more numerous prey, the herbivorous dinosaurs ...
Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps Peter D Ward. from about 68 million to 65 million years ago, and these rocks contain the most famous of all fossils, Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as its more numerous prey, the herbivorous dinosaurs ...
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... millions of years ago.4 But there is another place that tells us not only that the change in sea level can be vast, but also that such change can happen very, very quickly compared to those stony, primeval North Dakotan beds. That place ...
... millions of years ago.4 But there is another place that tells us not only that the change in sea level can be vast, but also that such change can happen very, very quickly compared to those stony, primeval North Dakotan beds. That place ...
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... million to 70 million years ago.2 That possibility had seemed laughable in recent decades for a simple reason: the entire Mesozoic Era, including the freak collision of a large asteroid in Mexico's Yucatan region that brought the period ...
... million to 70 million years ago.2 That possibility had seemed laughable in recent decades for a simple reason: the entire Mesozoic Era, including the freak collision of a large asteroid in Mexico's Yucatan region that brought the period ...
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... million years of animal Armageddon. But lately doubts are emerging. Coming back into consideration is a new version of a popular old explanation of animal extinction—that volcanoes were involved.3 As a boy growing up in the late 1950s ...
... million years of animal Armageddon. But lately doubts are emerging. Coming back into consideration is a new version of a popular old explanation of animal extinction—that volcanoes were involved.3 As a boy growing up in the late 1950s ...
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