The attacking ocean
Subtitle: the past, present, and future of rising sea levels
By: Brian Fagan
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781608196920
Subjects: History; Sea level; Ocean
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-255) and index.
Table of contents: title: Minus one hundred twenty-two meters and climbing; title: Millennia of dramatic change. Doggerland ; Euxine and Ta-Mehu ; "Marduk laid a reed on the face of the waters"; title: 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"; title: Challenging inundations. A right to subsistence ; The dilemma of islands ; "The crookedest river in the world" ; "Here the tide is rule, by the wind, the moon and us."