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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... ocean of apparent peace and biological plenty covers trouble brewing, because most of the Acropora corals in Pennekamp are quite dead, the ocean has been slowly warmed over the previous decades, and this Florida reef tract was one of ...
... ocean of apparent peace and biological plenty covers trouble brewing, because most of the Acropora corals in Pennekamp are quite dead, the ocean has been slowly warmed over the previous decades, and this Florida reef tract was one of ...
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... ocean chemistry—develop only underwater. The components of this reef show it to be similar in structure to the ... oceans—not just here in Florida, but all over the world—had risen 30 feet, stayed that way for more than a few centuries ...
... ocean chemistry—develop only underwater. The components of this reef show it to be similar in structure to the ... oceans—not just here in Florida, but all over the world—had risen 30 feet, stayed that way for more than a few centuries ...
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... oceans' volume as the immense sea bottoms swelled or shrank in tune with the vicissitudes of deep-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 ...
... oceans' volume as the immense sea bottoms swelled or shrank in tune with the vicissitudes of deep-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 ...
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... ocean currents to diminish and in some cases totally stop. A stilled ocean, eventually even on its surface regions, loses oxygen. The apparent result was a series of nasty events, such as oceanwide “dead zones” not unlike the anoxic The ...
... ocean currents to diminish and in some cases totally stop. A stilled ocean, eventually even on its surface regions, loses oxygen. The apparent result was a series of nasty events, such as oceanwide “dead zones” not unlike the anoxic The ...
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... oceans less than a few millimeters. But multiply that by all the enormous ice sheets on this planet, each melting ... ocean can change, has changed in the past, and is changing again. The rates of change have varied from very slow to ...
... oceans less than a few millimeters. But multiply that by all the enormous ice sheets on this planet, each melting ... ocean can change, has changed in the past, and is changing again. The rates of change have varied from very slow to ...
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