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Surviving Armageddon : Solutions for a Threatened Planet.
What do earthquakes, magma, asteroid 1950DA, and global warming have in common? Not only are they are all natural disasters already under way, but they are ones scientists are now working to predict and prevent. Bill McGuire guides us through the latest approaches being explored to protect the plane...
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Oxford University Press, UK,
2007.
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| 520 | |a What do earthquakes, magma, asteroid 1950DA, and global warming have in common? Not only are they are all natural disasters already under way, but they are ones scientists are now working to predict and prevent. Bill McGuire guides us through the latest approaches being explored to protect the planet, and argues we can make a genuine bid to get through what nature throws at us - providing we take the risks seriously. - ;The Asian tsunami of Christmas 2004 killed more than a quarter of a million people and shattered the lives of many more. The ruthless indifference of the forces of nature to ou. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Illustrations; Foreword; 1 The Heebie Gee-Gees: Setting the Scene; 2 Defending the Earth; 3 Tackling the Tectonic Threat; 4 Walking the Climate Change Tightrope; Epilogue: Doom or Bloom?; Further Reading; Index. | |
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