Rising seas : flooding, climate change and our new world
Thomas, Keltie
Wuthrich, Belle., Boake, Kathy
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Contents: Earth Is Going Under -- What's Driving Sea Rise? -- What Now, Earthlings? -- Miami Beach -- New Orleans -- New York -- Nova Scotia -- Lennox Island -- Greenland -- The Netherlands -- The Nile Delta -- The Maldives -- Mumbai -- Guangzhou -- Bangladesh -- The Marshall Islands -- Kiribati -- Antarctica -- What You Can Do.Summary: Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World gives youth an eye-popping view of what the Earth might look like under the rising and falling water levels of climate change. Photographs juxtapose the present-day with that same area's projected future. The shocking images will help them understand the urgency for action. Key issues in today's news will be better understood, such as the 2015 Paris Protocol in which the world agreed to limit temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius.
Location | edition | Bar Code | due date |
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Non-fiction | B026259 |
Dewey: | 551.45 |
call #: | THO |
ISBN: | 9780228100218 |
pub: | 2018 |