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The attacking ocean the past, present, and future of rising sea levels
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.
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- ISBN: 9781608196920 :
- ISBN: 1608196925
- Physical Description: xxii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First U.S. edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-255) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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." |
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Subject: | Sea level History Ocean History Coast changes Global temperature changes Climatic changes Global warming |