The Attacking Ocean: The Past, Present, and Future of Rising Sea Levels by Brian Fagan

ISBN: 9781408845745

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Bloomsbury Publishing, June 1, 2013

Paperback, 288 pages

Paperback. Pub Date :2013-06-01 Pages: 288 Language: English Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Over the past fifteen thousand years the Earth has witnessed dramatic changes in sea level. The last Ice Age. when coastlines were more than 700 feet below modern levels. saw rapid global warming. and over the following ten millennia. the oceans climbed in fits and starts. These changes had little impact on the humans of the day. because the earths population was then so small. and those few people were more mobile than todays static populations. Global sea levels stabilised about five thousand years ago. As urban civilisations developed in Egypt. Mesopotamia and South Asia the curve of inexorably rising seas flattened out. The planets population boomed. and by the Industrial Revolution was five times its size two thousand years earlier. And as we crowded shorelines to live. fish an...