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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... perhaps five times higher than the present-day level of nearly 390 parts per million (ppm). No one could conceive of ... Perhaps—just perhaps—there could be much higher carbon dioxide than there is today without the resultant melting of ...
... perhaps five times higher than the present-day level of nearly 390 parts per million (ppm). No one could conceive of ... Perhaps—just perhaps—there could be much higher carbon dioxide than there is today without the resultant melting of ...
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... the newly violent weather. Our camp was a swamp, even well into the Antarctic autumn. The permafrost on which our camp was placed was melting—perhaps for the first time in 10,000 millennia. Between The Rising Sea | 17.
... the newly violent weather. Our camp was a swamp, even well into the Antarctic autumn. The permafrost on which our camp was placed was melting—perhaps for the first time in 10,000 millennia. Between The Rising Sea | 17.
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Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps Peter D Ward. was melting—perhaps for the first time in 10,000 millennia. Between and beneath each of our tents was an enlarging pond; we waded from place to place in our camp. Getting around ...
Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps Peter D Ward. was melting—perhaps for the first time in 10,000 millennia. Between and beneath each of our tents was an enlarging pond; we waded from place to place in our camp. Getting around ...
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... Perhaps the flood myths originated in a truly spectacular event that occurred in the Black Sea some 7,600 years ago. In 1998, geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman found evidence of a short-term rise in the Black Sea that would have ...
... Perhaps the flood myths originated in a truly spectacular event that occurred in the Black Sea some 7,600 years ago. In 1998, geologists Bill Ryan and Walter Pitman found evidence of a short-term rise in the Black Sea that would have ...
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... perhaps two hundred times greater than the present-day flow of Niagara Falls. Yet that one mystery solved leads us to another: why would all that salt water so suddenly make its way inland? Perhaps a titanic earthquake opened a passage ...
... perhaps two hundred times greater than the present-day flow of Niagara Falls. Yet that one mystery solved leads us to another: why would all that salt water so suddenly make its way inland? Perhaps a titanic earthquake opened a passage ...
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