Global Warming Unchecked: Signs to Watch forIndiana University Press, 1993 - 186 Seiten Discusses the social and environmental aspects of the greenhouse effect. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 21
Seite 63
... feet ( 2.6 m ) at 37.6 feet ( 11.5 m ) . Much of the city was under water . Later crests , from the Great New England Hurricane in 1938 and Hurricane Diane in 1954 , would approach but never exceed the 1936 mark . Floods also swirled ...
... feet ( 2.6 m ) at 37.6 feet ( 11.5 m ) . Much of the city was under water . Later crests , from the Great New England Hurricane in 1938 and Hurricane Diane in 1954 , would approach but never exceed the 1936 mark . Floods also swirled ...
Seite 98
... feet ( 3.7 m ) by 2100 ; a mean figure , however , sets the increase nearer five feet ( 1.5 m ) . ( The disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet could add sixteen to twenty feet [ 5 to 6 m ] to the sea level , but such a ...
... feet ( 3.7 m ) by 2100 ; a mean figure , however , sets the increase nearer five feet ( 1.5 m ) . ( The disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet could add sixteen to twenty feet [ 5 to 6 m ] to the sea level , but such a ...
Seite 140
... feet ( 15 to 30 m ) ; in the Carolinas , 200 feet ( 60 m ) of beach would be lost ; and in Florida losses would vary from 100 feet to as much as 1,000 feet ( 305 m ) . Over the flat wetlands of Louisiana the retreat of shorelines would ...
... feet ( 15 to 30 m ) ; in the Carolinas , 200 feet ( 60 m ) of beach would be lost ; and in Florida losses would vary from 100 feet to as much as 1,000 feet ( 305 m ) . Over the flat wetlands of Louisiana the retreat of shorelines would ...
Inhalt
PART II Greenhouse Gases Climate Models | 65 |
How Do We Know Whats Going to Happen? | 79 |
Crocodiles in New York | 97 |
Urheberrecht | |
7 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
20 percent agriculture analog annual atmospheric CO2 August average Basin billion dollars California carbon dioxide Carolina category three century CFCs chapter climate change climate models CO₂ coast Colorado cooling corn crop currently Dakota decade doubled CO2 drier drought Dust Bowl earth electric emissions energy environmental feet figure floods Florida forecast forests fossil fuels gases Georgia GFDL model global temperature global warming greenhouse effect greenhouse warming greenhouse world Gulf Hansen heat waves hotter hurricanes inches increase James Hansen July Kansas Lakes Little Ice Age Medieval Warm Period methane Mexico midcentury Midwest millibars million NASA model National North North Dakota northern ocean OPEC Oregon ozone patterns period Plains plants precipitation predicted problem rain rainfall record region researchers result River scenario scientists sea level solar South southern Stephen Schneider summer summertime sunspot Texas tropical storms United warmer warning weather West western winter