The Attacking Ocean
The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Format: Book
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Description: xxii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
A history of climate change describes the dramatic evolution and stabilization of the oceans before the rise of humans approximately 6,000 years ago, tracing a significant rise in global temperatures since 1860 and how a rising sea level is affecting world populations. By the best-selling author of The Great Warming.
Contents:
Minus one hundred twenty-two meters and climbing -- Millennia of dramatic change. Doggerland ; Euxine and Ta-Mehu ; "Marduk laid a reed on the face of the waters" -- Catastrophic forces. "Men were swept away by waves" ; "The whole shoreline filled" ; "The abyss of the depths was uncovered" ; "The whole is now one festering mess" ; The Golden Waterway ; "Wave in the harbor" -- Challenging inundations. A right to subsistence ; The dilemma of islands ; "The crookedest river in the world" ; "Here the tide is ruled, by the wind, the moon and us."
Subjects:
Sea level -- History.
Ocean -- History.
Coast changes.
Global temperature changes.
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
Sea level -- History.
Ocean -- History.
Coast changes.
Global temperature changes.
Climatic changes.
Global warming.
ISBN:
9781608196920
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SCIENCE Climate Fag | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-255) and index.