The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps
Author(s): Peter D. Ward
Publisher: Basic Books (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 272 pages
List Price: $25.95
by Peter Ward. Basic. 2010. 252 pages. Paperback. $25.95.
A mere 4°F increase in the earth’s climate would suffice to raise the earth’s sea level by 30 feet, according to biologist Peter Ward. This increase—or even more by 2100—could happen with present-day carbon-dioxide levels, Ward warns. Should this warming take place, the ice sheets of Greenland, the Arctic, and Antarctica would mostly melt. The property losses, crop damage, famines, and displacements worldwide would be catastrophic.
Ward combines research on the earth’s ancient fossil record and present-day climate patterns to paint a vivid and alarming picture of how climate change would disrupt life over the long term.
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