San Antonio College Library

"Over the coming decades, hundreds of thousands of "environmental refugees" will be forced to search for new homes. Some of the world's largest and most important cities will face massive flooding. Small coastal towns and entire island nations will be abandoned. In The Rising Sea geologists Orrin H. Pilkey and Rob Young warn that sea level rise isn't a distant, abstract fear: it's happening right now. Prominent scientists predict that ocean levels...

"Global Warming aims to make accessible the heavily technical literature to the non-science student, providing a bridge between the highly scientific and the popular non-academic texts. Placing global warming within the broader context of climate change, this textbook details the interacting components of the climatic system, reviewing the importance of changing carbon dioxide levels for the evolution of the Earth's atmosphere and climate. Utilizing...

This title explores the realization that the Earth's climate system could undergo abrupt reorganizations, changing temperatures and rainfall across much of the planet.

Deniers of climate change sometimes quip that claims about global warming are more about political science than climate science. They are wrong on the science, but may be right with respect to its political implications. A hotter world, writes the author, will bring unprecedented migrations, famine, war, and disease. It will be a social and political disaster of the first order. In this book the author takes climate change out of the realm of scientific...

"In this book, leading scientists weave a compelling story out of the most up-to-date discoveries in different fields of Ice Age research." "As the glaciers melted 10,000 years ago, our ancestors faced a staggering sea-level rise of 120 metres, far in excess of the relatively modest rise predicted for the 21st century. The final chapter issues a stark warning about the future of our planet and the consequences of our profligate lifestyles." "Magnificently...