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No mountain glaciers left
Winter sea ice only
All ice sheets melting
Conifer forest replacing tundra
Greener deserts
Figure 28.7
Environmental predictions for the consequences of a 4
CO
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world by 2200-2300.
Source: After Ruddiman (2001)
Plate 28.8
A shallow rotational landslide at La Conchita,
causing property damage on the Santa Monica coastline of
claimed several lives in this foothill community, which chose
to build between steep slopes in a tectonically active zone and
toe-slope erosion by the Pacific Ocean.
Photo: Dee Trent
