epub |eng | 2006-12-26 | Author:Elizabeth Kolbert [Kolbert, Elizabeth]

Chapter 6 Floating Houses In February 2003, a series of ads on the theme of inundation began appearing on Dutch TV. The ads were sponsored by the Netherlands’ Ministry of ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2000-10-01 | Author:David Keys [Keys, David]

The East Asian region seems to have continued to endure climatic problems and famine for several years. Mainland sources cite problems in China between 535 and 538 (see Chapter 19), ...

epub |eng | | Author:Marc Reisner

Like the westbound wagons that had to jettison furniture, food, even water in order to plow through the desert sands, the Central Arizona Project was finally light enough to move. ...

azw3 |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:Wagner, Gernot & Weitzman, Martin L. [Wagner, Gernot]

None of that yet includes the truly frightening low-probability events. There’s a huge difference between a likely sea-level rise of 0.3 to 1 meters (1 to 3 feet) by the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2014-04-27 | Author:Gillen D'Arcy Wood

A CATASTROPHE, BUT NOT CATASTROPHISM Now largely forgotten outside Switzerland, the 1818 Val de Bagnes disaster was nevertheless widely reported in the European press and became a major talking point ...

mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Olivia Laing

After the sun had dropped and I’d soaped myself thoroughly beneath a lukewarm shower I began to revive. I ate a curry in an empty restaurant and drank a beer ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-15 | Author:Jean Jouzel & Claude Lorius & Dominique Raynaud

Volcanism and Solar Activity: Natural Climatic Forcings As we get closer to the current period, our knowledge of the evolution of the climate becomes increasingly detailed, both in time and ...

epub |eng | | Author:Gabrielle Walker [Walker, Gabrielle]

In 1947, three years after Midgley's death, his former boss Charles Kettering made a similar point during an address to the National Academy of Sciences. Kettering recalled the words of ...

epub |eng | 2012-07-23 | Author:Climate Central [Central, Climate]

37 Arctic Sea Ice Has Been on a Mostly Downward Spiral for the Past Thirty Years. Every summer above the Arctic Circle, the sun rises relatively high in the sky ...

mobi |eng | 2008-08-04 | Author:Gabrielle Walker

In the next few months, Lovelock’s results wafted over the Atlantic to America, where they triggered a question in the mind of Sherwood (“Sherry”) Rowland, a chemistry professor at the ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-26 | Author:Alice Oswald [Alice Oswald]

Jan Coo! Jan Coo! have you any idea what goes into water? I have verified the calibration records have you monitored for colour and turbidity? I’m continually sending light signals ...

azw3 |eng | 2009-05-18 | Author:Ian Wishart

There are thousands of volcanoes, and millions of vents, under the ocean. All of them piping emissions at temperatures of 300°C (576°F) or higher into the oceans around them. It’s ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-10 | Author:Eric Pooley

31 A Rebel Encampment She wore her hair short—not so much cut as sheered off at the nape, because what does hair matter?—and her indifference to style made her all ...

epub | | | Author:Cosmos

epub, pdf |deu | 2010-05-24 | Author:Roy W Spencer [Spencer, Roy W]

(W/sq. m.) slope = -0.6 -1.0 Radiative Energy Imbalance -2.0 -0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 Temperature Change (degrees C) experience to interpret the subtleties of a c t or m ...