Can physics save Miami (and Shanghai and Venice, by lowering the sea)?

• Tác giả: E. L Wolf
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1643274256
• ISBN-13: 978-1643274263
• ISBN-13: 978-1643274287
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 551.458 Shorelines
• Thông tin xuất bản: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, 2019
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (various pagings) : , illustrations (chiefly color).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 161140
• Chủ đề: 1. Climatic changes; 2. Physics; 3. Sea level; 4. Ecological science, the Biosphere; 5. SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental)

Includes bibliographical references.

Tóm tắt

Credible predictions for sea level rise by the year 2100 range from 12 inches to above 6 feet. Study of the Earth's geologic history links sea level rise to temperature rise. Engineering the Earth's solar input appears increasingly attractive and practical as a means to lower Earth's temperature, and thus, to lower sea level. The accompanying lower global temperature would reduce the severity of extreme weather, and restore habitability to lethally hot parts of the world.