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English
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An alarming rise in the world's sea levels--much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt--sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea, however, is even worse than they imagined: a diabolical plan to upset the Pacific balance of power--and in the process displace as many as a billion people. A rare alloy unlike...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"What if Atlantis wasn't a myth, but an early precursor to a new age of great flooding? Across the globe, scientists and civilians alike are noticing rapidly rising sea levels, and higher and higher tides pushing more water directly into the places we live, from our most vibrant, historic cities to our last remaining traditional coastal villages. With each crack in the great ice sheets of the Arctic and Antarctica, and each tick upwards of Earth's...
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Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"In Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean, writer, sailor, and surfer Jonathan White takes readers across the globe to discover the science and spirit of ocean tides. In the Arctic, White shimmies under the ice with an Inuit elder to hunt for mussels in the dark cavities left behind at low tide; in China, he races the Silver Dragon, a twenty-five-foot tidal bore that crashes eighty miles up the Qiantang River; in France, he interviews the monks...
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Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"The fundamental point of this book is that, in the past, the world's political, economic, military, and social development took place during a time of relatively stable sea level. That time, however, is now over: The world must begin to cope with inevitable increases in sea level. These increases are certain to have important domestic and international consequences"--Provided by publisher.
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NOAA technical report NOS CO-OPS volume 73
Publisher
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
Pub. Date
June 2014.
Language
English
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Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Examines rising sea levels and how human populations are contributing to this rise. Also includes research and approaches for coping with the changes that increasing sea levels may bring.
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Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Miami has a serious problem--water! Sometimes, on sunny days, water bubbles up from storm drains. Residents find their homes flooded. On some days, they see cars floating like boats and even fish swimming in pools of water in the streets. What is going on? And can anything be done to save the city from being completely flooded with water? Rising Seas: Miami, Floridatraces the tragic story of the causes of global warming, how this affects Miami--a...
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Series
Mermaid S.O.S volume 11
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The water levels are rising! Becky and her friends have to be quick if they are going to save Ice Kingdom from melting for ever. Becky comes up with a magical plan to help her fellow Sisters of the Sea find the precious Snow Diamond and befriend a young Human girl.
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Series
Sea Grant publication volume UNC-SG-03-04
Publisher
North Carolina Sea Grant
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
17) New York 2140
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Language
English
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As the sea levels rose, every skyscraper in New York City became an island. In one apartment building in Madison Square there is the market trader, who finds opportunities where others find trouble. There is the detective, whose work will never disappear. There is the internet star, and the building's manager, and two boys who don't live there, but have no other home. And then there are the coders, temporary residents on the roof, whose disappearance...
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Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Harvey. Maria. Irma. Sandy. Katrina. The early twenty-first century can be described as a time of unprecedented and catastrophic weather events, a time when it is increasingly clear that climate change is neither imagined nor distant - and that rising seas are transforming the coastline of the United States in irrevocable ways. The author explores some of the places where this change has been most dramatic, from the Gulf Coast to Miami, and from New...
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Low-lying island nations are least responsible for global warming, but they are already suffering its impacts severely and disproportionately. According to the International Panel on Climate Change, island nations are responsible for 0.03% of global emissions. A weave of essays, maps, poems and illustrations, Sea Change presents the impacts of and solutions to sea level rise. An essay, drawing on interviews, scientific reports, academic scholarship...
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Series
NOAA technical report NOS CO-OPS volume 83
Publisher
U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task Force, jointly convened by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) and the National Ocean Council (NOC), began its work in August 2015. The Task Force has focused its efforts on three primary tasks: 1) updating scenarios of global mean sea level (GMSL) rise, 2) integrating the global scenarios with regional factors contributing to sea level change for the entire...