Titre:
The attacking ocean : the past, present, and future of rising sea levels
Auteur:
Numéro de cote topographique requis:
551.458 FAG 2013
Informations de publication:
New York : Bloomsbury Press, 2013, ©2013.
Description matérielle:
xxii, 265 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Bibliographie:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-255) and index.
Table des matières:
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."
Numéro international normalisé des livres (ISBN):
9781608196920
Résumé:
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.