Don't like the weather; just wait five minutes. Real Canadian culture is complaining about the weather: * The ice storm of January 1998 in Eastern Canada caused power outages in Ontario and Quebec, leaving 200,000 people in the...
Climatology
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Auteur:Jackson, A. H.Sommaire: - Auteur:Koonin, Steven E.Sommaire:
"Surging sea levels are inundating the coasts." "Hurricanes and tornadoes are becoming fiercer and more frequent." "Climate change will be an economic disaster." You've heard all this presented as fact...
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Auteur:Sandford, Robert W.Sommaire:As this self-reflective book demonstrates, when one takes up the serious study of water, one cannot but be surprised at how far that interest can take you: from the very origins of the cosmos right down to the unique structure and...
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Auteur:Mogil, H. MichaelSommaire:Recent decades have brought record temperatures, devastating storms, and killer waves, which have in turn spurred widespread curiosity about how such weather systems develop. Organized by weather event—including hurricanes, winter...
- Auteur:Villeneuve, ClaudeSommaire:
Est-il trop tard pour contrer les changements climatiques ?
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Auteur:Arnaldo, MonicaSommaire:Arto has lived his whole life in the snowy, cold North, and six years is a long time. When his mom gets a new job and the family prepares to spend a year in the South, Arto is not happy at all. He decides that he's just going to act as...
- Auteur:Dewdney, ChristopherSommaire:
We live at the bottom of an ocean of air -- 5,200 million million tons, to be exact. It sounds like a lot, but Earth's atmosphere is smeared onto its surface in an alarmingly thin layer -- 99 percent contained within 18 miles. Yet...
