The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities

Mike Tidwell

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Free Press, 2007

0743294718 / 9780743294713

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The question on every American's mind: Can Katrina happen to me where I live? The answer, unfortunately, is yes, yes, and again yes. If you are one of the 150 million Americans who live within 100 miles of a coastline -- and even if you live much farther inland -- you could be inhabiting the next New Orleans. The bad news for you is that there are even more studies full of even more scientific data confirming this fact than the studies predicting Katrina prior to 2005. The issue this time is global warming. We are literally altering the sky above us. And be assured: This is not some junk theory peddled by Greenpeace extremists. No less an authority than the Bush Administration itself has officially confirmed, on multiple occasions, that global warming is real and is driven by our use of fossil fuels -- oil, coal, and natural gas. Worldwide, thanks to climate change, sea level is expected to rise up to three feet within the coming decades and extreme weather events will significantly increase, according to the Bush Administration. These two factors -- more intense storms and rising ocean levels -- mean we are rapidly turning every coastal city in America into another New Orleans.…

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Titre
The Ravaging Tide: Strange Weather, Future Katrinas, and the Coming Death of America's Coastal Cities
Auteur
Mike Tidwell
Éditeur
Free Press
Année de publication
2007
État de l'article
Good
Reliure
Paperback
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0743294718
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780743294713

World of Books (was SecondSale)

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