Rising Seas

Autor*innen

• Vivien Gornitz

Parameter

• Natur
• Natur, Tiere

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The Earth's climate is already warming due to increased concentrations of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the specter of rising sea level is one of global warming's most far-reaching threats. Sea level will keep rising long after greenhouse gas emissions have ceased, because of the delay in penetration of surface warming to the ocean depths and because of the slow dissipation of excess atmospheric carbon dioxide. Adopting a long perspective that interprets sea level changes both underway and expected in the near future, Vivien Gornitz completes a highly relevant and nece ..

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• Einband: Paperback