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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... . Up close, you'll see that the large white walls are made up of gigantic coral skeletons intermingled with a profusion of smaller coral, shell, and unidentifiable limestone crags of all sizes and orientations—a reef, 8 | THE FLOODED EARTH.
... . Up close, you'll see that the large white walls are made up of gigantic coral skeletons intermingled with a profusion of smaller coral, shell, and unidentifiable limestone crags of all sizes and orientations—a reef, 8 | THE FLOODED EARTH.
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... earth? The answer is simple, yet unnerving. The giant corals on Lone Pine Key have not moved a bit since the days when they were growing in water 10 to 30 feet at this very place—about 125,000 years ago. The land had not gone up. The ...
... earth? The answer is simple, yet unnerving. The giant corals on Lone Pine Key have not moved a bit since the days when they were growing in water 10 to 30 feet at this very place—about 125,000 years ago. The land had not gone up. The ...
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... Earth history—that ice is and will continue to melt faster than at any previous time. TELLING THE STORY OF THE FLOODED EARTH In this book, I explain what the consequences might be in the next centuries. The first chapter cuts to the ...
... Earth history—that ice is and will continue to melt faster than at any previous time. TELLING THE STORY OF THE FLOODED EARTH In this book, I explain what the consequences might be in the next centuries. The first chapter cuts to the ...
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... earth heating. Yet near the end of the Cretaceous period, the rise and fall of the sea, as evidenced in sedimentary beds, seemed to defy the rate of tectonically produced sea level change—the changes happened so fast and were of such ...
... earth heating. Yet near the end of the Cretaceous period, the rise and fall of the sea, as evidenced in sedimentary beds, seemed to defy the rate of tectonically produced sea level change—the changes happened so fast and were of such ...
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... earth—both of them, shall we say, smash hits. In fact, the Alvarez asteroid-impact hypothesis—that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was directly attributable to the environmental aftereffects of a large-body impact on the earth ...
... earth—both of them, shall we say, smash hits. In fact, the Alvarez asteroid-impact hypothesis—that the mass extinction of the dinosaurs was directly attributable to the environmental aftereffects of a large-body impact on the earth ...
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