Rivers
epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Sudipta Sen [Sen, Sudipta]

The empire of Harshavardhana of Kanauj. Map by M. Roy Cartography. CHAPTER 7 CRUCIBLE OF EMPIRES The Ganges near Kanauj that the Chinese traveler and scholar Xuanzang saw was pure ...
( Category: Hydrology March 9,2019 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Bill Roorbach

FLASH FORWARD TO THE SPRING OF 2000. ONE EARLY APRIL morning, sleepless with her pregnancy, Juliet woke me, said: “We have to leave Ohio.” “Yes,” I said. “Promise me,” she ...
( Category: Rivers August 25,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Heidi Cullen

Perhaps because of what Gearheard, Pearce, and others have seen personally, many scientists believe that cultural preservation, along with housing and infrastructure improvements, is an important way to help the ...
( Category: Weather June 8,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2008-05-02 | Author:Jerry Silver [Silver, Jerry]

Figure 6-9 Comparison of greenhouse gas emissions by emerging versus developed countries. (Source: EPA.) Table 6-4 Carbon Dioxide Contributions of Various Counties Overall and for the Year 2005 Source: Dangerous ...
( Category: Climatology June 8,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael J. Benton

The search for pattern Does history follow rules or not? In matters of human affairs, some historians see a horrible inevitability in the rise and fall of nations. Countries and ...
( Category: Rivers March 11,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Dominic Ziegler

CHAPTER 9 52°21.7' N 127°31.0' E The narrative of the European conquest and settlement of new lands comes everywhere now with acknowledgment of guilt and open shows of contrition. Except ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Brian Sussman

AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE Since 1960, we’ve elected federal leaders who have allowed us to be held hostage by a small cabal callous to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 12,2016 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:J. F. P. Galvin [Galvin, J. F. P.]

Figure 10.1 A sequence of water-vapour satellite images from Meteosat on 13–14 March 2006. An MCC can be seen developing and decaying over a period of 18 hours at 6-hourly ...
( Category: Weather February 5,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Middleton, Nick [Middleton, Nick]

Water power The energy in flowing and falling water has been harnessed to perform work by turning waterwheels for more than 2,000 years. The moving water turns a large wheel ...
( Category: Rivers January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

On a more theoretical note, a recent study by Chris Thomas and colleagues (published in Nature in 2004) investigated the possible increase in the likely extinction rate over the next ...
( Category: Climatology January 12,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

The great salt crisis About 6 million years ago the gradual tectonic changes resulted in the closure of the Strait of Gibraltar. This led to the transient isolation of the ...
( Category: Climatology January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-26 | Author:Maslin, Mark [Maslin, Mark]

19. The 2003 European heat wave killed an estimated 35,000 people 20. Comparison of the 2003 heat wave with past and future summer temperatures ENSO is an oscillation between three ...
( Category: Climatology December 22,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-12-17 | Author:James Inhofe

THE APPEASERS When I think of all the backroom deals that took place during the Waxman-Markey and Kerry-Graham-Lieberman days, the maxim that comes to mind is: “No man survives when ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-03-26 | Author:Roy W. Spencer [Spencer, Roy W.]

Instead, I am claiming that our confidence in current climate models’ ability to predict the future is misplaced. This is partly due to the inherent complexity of the climate system. ...
( Category: Environmental Policy October 18,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-06-29 | Author:Sam Miller [Miller, Sam]

where m is the mass of the object [kg], g is the effective gravity acting on it [m/s2], and zi is the (initial) altitude of the object before it’s dropped ...
( Category: Weather August 22,2015 )