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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... gross national product dedicated to building dikes for those urban areas of the eastern and western seaboards still somewhat less. INTRODUCTION. affected by the relentlessly encroaching waters. Miami had joined New | 1 Introduction.
... gross national product dedicated to building dikes for those urban areas of the eastern and western seaboards still somewhat less. INTRODUCTION. affected by the relentlessly encroaching waters. Miami had joined New | 1 Introduction.
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... areas found today in the Gulf of Mexico, off Namibia in Africa, and in many lakes and estuaries where conditions of eutrophication—where a body of water first warms and then loses its oxygen as its enclosed life dies and then rots— have ...
... areas found today in the Gulf of Mexico, off Namibia in Africa, and in many lakes and estuaries where conditions of eutrophication—where a body of water first warms and then loses its oxygen as its enclosed life dies and then rots— have ...
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... areas we are familiar with. What causes sea level change? As noted in the Introduction, the oceans are affected by the machinery of Earth's solid surface mass, including both tectonic processes (mountain-building that causes some land ...
... areas we are familiar with. What causes sea level change? As noted in the Introduction, the oceans are affected by the machinery of Earth's solid surface mass, including both tectonic processes (mountain-building that causes some land ...
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... areas on its entire perimeter.11 As much as 60,000 square miles might have been flooded in as little as a few months. This event, so short, so obviously devastating, could indeed have started the myths of a global flood that comes down ...
... areas on its entire perimeter.11 As much as 60,000 square miles might have been flooded in as little as a few months. This event, so short, so obviously devastating, could indeed have started the myths of a global flood that comes down ...
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... areas: it would have substantially changed the nature of sedimentation in the region. For starters, there would have been a change in the shorelines. Shore deposits show a characteristic pattern of sedimentation and sedimentary ...
... areas: it would have substantially changed the nature of sedimentation in the region. For starters, there would have been a change in the shorelines. Shore deposits show a characteristic pattern of sedimentation and sedimentary ...
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