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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... twenty-first century. To its east, Miami Beach was vastly reduced in size: Collins Avenue south to Washington Avenue was still on land, but the terrain was denuded of any but the fastest-growing vegetation and the hulks of the hotels ...
... twenty-first century. To its east, Miami Beach was vastly reduced in size: Collins Avenue south to Washington Avenue was still on land, but the terrain was denuded of any but the fastest-growing vegetation and the hulks of the hotels ...
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Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps Peter D Ward. in the early twenty-first century—there was just too much money, and too many well-armed soldiers employed by the cartels. If anything, the Keys had fared even worse. All the islands ...
Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps Peter D Ward. in the early twenty-first century—there was just too much money, and too many well-armed soldiers employed by the cartels. If anything, the Keys had fared even worse. All the islands ...
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... twenty-first century, we have just come out of an ice age where sea level was 240 feet below what it is now, and that translates into far greater continental land areas lying exposed. New Guinea was hooked to Australia by dry land ...
... twenty-first century, we have just come out of an ice age where sea level was 240 feet below what it is now, and that translates into far greater continental land areas lying exposed. New Guinea was hooked to Australia by dry land ...
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... century. But such figures are not the highest rates of sea level rise in the past—far from it, in fact. Understanding that climate change is under way certainly predates the start of the twenty-first century. By the 1980s and 1990s ...
... century. But such figures are not the highest rates of sea level rise in the past—far from it, in fact. Understanding that climate change is under way certainly predates the start of the twenty-first century. By the 1980s and 1990s ...
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