@article{467448,
      author = {Gornitz, Vivien.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/467448},
      title = {Rising seas past, present, future / [electronic resource]  :},
      publisher = {Columbia University Press,},
      abstract = {"Gornitz consults past climate archives to help better  anticipate future developments and prepare for them more  effectively. She focuses on several understudied historical  events, including the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Anomaly, the  Messinian salinity crisis, the rapid filling of the Black  Sea (which may have inspired the story of Noah's flood),  and the Storrega submarine slide, an incident possibly  connected to a sea level occurrence roughly 8,000 years  old. By examining dramatic variations in past sea level and  climate, Gornitz concretizes the potential consequences of  rapid, human-induced warming. She builds historical  precedent for coastal hazards associated with a higher  ocean level, such as increased damage from storm surge  flooding, even if storm characteristics remain unchanged.  Citing the examples of Rotterdam, London, New York City,  and other forward-looking urban centers that are  effectively preparing for higher sea level, Gornitz also  delineates the difficult economic and political choices of  curbing carbon emissions while underscoring, through past  geological analysis, the urgent need to do so"--Provided by  publisher.},
      recid = {467448},
      pages = {1 online resource (xiv, 344 p.) :},
      address = {New York :},
      year = {2013},
}