Weather: How it Works and why it MattersPerseus Pub., 2000 - 223 pàgines |
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... United States , the Laurentian Ice Shield , slid into the sea off Labrador , the western North Atlantic Ocean . As the ice sheets crawl over land , they pick up all kinds of debris , from sand and dust to rocks of all sizes . Some of ...
... United States , the Laurentian Ice Shield , slid into the sea off Labrador , the western North Atlantic Ocean . As the ice sheets crawl over land , they pick up all kinds of debris , from sand and dust to rocks of all sizes . Some of ...
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... United States 21 % Rest of the World 36 % FIGURE 15.1 Contributions to global warming in the 1980s by country ( percent ) . growth is now dependent upon immigration from underdeveloped soci- eties . Although the largest of the developed ...
... United States 21 % Rest of the World 36 % FIGURE 15.1 Contributions to global warming in the 1980s by country ( percent ) . growth is now dependent upon immigration from underdeveloped soci- eties . Although the largest of the developed ...
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... United States has made little or no progress in two more waste- ful areas , and they are the ones in which we waste on a grand scale , and in which we must concentrate our actions . The second area involves the lob- byists who are ...
... United States has made little or no progress in two more waste- ful areas , and they are the ones in which we waste on a grand scale , and in which we must concentrate our actions . The second area involves the lob- byists who are ...
Continguts
Introduction | 1 |
The Fundamentals of Air | 7 |
Its Not the Heat Its the Heat and the Humidity | 15 |
Copyright | |
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