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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... Sea Rising Carbon Dioxide The Flood of Humans 69 1 Feeding Humanity Amid Rising Sea Level Greenland, Antarctica, and Sea Level 121 Flooding of Coastal Countries and Cities Extinction? Stopping Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Notes ...
... Sea Rising Carbon Dioxide The Flood of Humans 69 1 Feeding Humanity Amid Rising Sea Level Greenland, Antarctica, and Sea Level 121 Flooding of Coastal Countries and Cities Extinction? Stopping Catastrophic Sea Level Rise Notes ...
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... rising seawater, with all its huge expanse of freshwater plants dying quickly, while the mangroves that replaced them were still too young to make a green dent in the mass of dead vegetation. So profound was this change that the level ...
... rising seawater, with all its huge expanse of freshwater plants dying quickly, while the mangroves that replaced them were still too young to make a green dent in the mass of dead vegetation. So profound was this change that the level ...
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... rise will surpass anything that at least post-agricultural humanity has gone through. As a paleontologist who has had to professionally study the effects of rising and falling sea level from far more ancient times than the time of ...
... rise will surpass anything that at least post-agricultural humanity has gone through. As a paleontologist who has had to professionally study the effects of rising and falling sea level from far more ancient times than the time of ...
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... sea level change and global warming to illustrate the potential “fixes” being proposed to remedy or manage the rise in sea level, through both local and global engineering. And I explore ways that we might yet stop the rising of the seas to ...
... sea level change and global warming to illustrate the potential “fixes” being proposed to remedy or manage the rise in sea level, through both local and global engineering. And I explore ways that we might yet stop the rising of the seas to ...
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... rise in sea level that would ensue. That was the good news our team was hoping for. But there were bad portents possible in the rocks we had traveled so far to see—one of which also dealt with sea level. That an asteroid collision ...
... rise in sea level that would ensue. That was the good news our team was hoping for. But there were bad portents possible in the rocks we had traveled so far to see—one of which also dealt with sea level. That an asteroid collision ...
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