Rising seas [electronic resource] : past, present, future / Vivien Gornitz.
2013
GC89 .G67 2013eb
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Title
Rising seas [electronic resource] : past, present, future / Vivien Gornitz.
Author
Gornitz, Vivien.
ISBN
9780231519205 (electronic bk.)
9780231147385
9780231147392
9780231147385
9780231147392
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2013.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 344 p.) : ill., maps
Call Number
GC89 .G67 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
551.45/8
Summary
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
The ever-changing ocean
The causes and detection of sea level change
Piercing the veil of time : sea levels after the dinosaurs
When the mammoths roamed : sea levels during the Ice Ages
The great ice meltdown and rising seas
The modern speedup of sea level rise
Sea level rise on a warming planet
Shorelines at risk
Coping with the rising waters
Charting a future course.
The causes and detection of sea level change
Piercing the veil of time : sea levels after the dinosaurs
When the mammoths roamed : sea levels during the Ice Ages
The great ice meltdown and rising seas
The modern speedup of sea level rise
Sea level rise on a warming planet
Shorelines at risk
Coping with the rising waters
Charting a future course.