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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... 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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... earth. THE WATERS UPON THE EARTH The subject of this initial chapter is nothing less than the overall subject of the book: that the level of the global ocean can change, has changed in the past, and is changing again. The rates of ...
... earth. THE WATERS UPON THE EARTH The subject of this initial chapter is nothing less than the overall subject of the book: that the level of the global ocean can change, has changed in the past, and is changing again. The rates of ...
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... earth's mobile, if stony, upper crust. But we will have to change our maps long before the continental plates creep significantly across the planet. The shapes of coastlines are set to radically change beginning early in the next ...
... earth's mobile, if stony, upper crust. But we will have to change our maps long before the continental plates creep significantly across the planet. The shapes of coastlines are set to radically change beginning early in the next ...
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... earth, resulting from monstrous, continuous rains lasting almost six weeks. Science tells us it is impossible to rain everywhere on Earth at the same time, and even if it were possible, the high mountains of the many continents would ...
... earth, resulting from monstrous, continuous rains lasting almost six weeks. Science tells us it is impossible to rain everywhere on Earth at the same time, and even if it were possible, the high mountains of the many continents would ...
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