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

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wolf, E. L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, [2019]
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 6.
IOP concise physics.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 1 0 |a Can physics save Miami (and Shanghai and Venice, by lowering the sea)? /  |c Edward Wolf. 
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500 |a "Version: 20190401"--Title page verso. 
500 |a "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a 1. The sea-level threat exemplified by Miami and Venice -- 1.1. Introduction to the Anthropocene -- 1.2. The recent rise of sea level -- 1.3. The River Thames flood barrier -- 1.4. The 'Big U' water fence for New York -- 1.5. Why Miami is more difficult -- 1.6. Amplification of sea-level threat by tides, storm-surges and the high vapor pressure of warm water -- 1.7. Quantifying damages and liabilities : fractional attributable risk 
505 8 |a 2. Carbon burning has 'engineered' a new era of high temperature and high sea level -- 2.1. Radiation balance sets Earth temperature -- 2.2. The greenhouse gas discoveries of Tyndall and Arrhenius -- 2.3. Carbon dioxide rose during the fossil fuel era from 280 ppm to 410 ppm -- 2.4. Temperature and sea level rises are accelerating, will there be a tipping point? 
505 8 |a 3. Instability of Earth climate and sea level -- 3.1. The ice core record of 420 000 years -- 3.2. Sea level rise since the last glaciation -- 3.3. The 'Hothouse Earth' : an earlier era of high sea level 
505 8 |a 4. What was learned from Mt. Pinatubo eruption in 1991 -- 4.1. Sulfur dioxide emission and stratospheric aerosol -- 4.2. Cooling of the Earth by the Mt Pinatubo eruption -- 4.3. Lowering sea level from Mt Pinatubo in the altimeter record -- 4.4. Particulate matter in the contemporary atmosphere 
505 8 |a 5. Solar engineering to cool the Earth -- 5.1. Size and type of artificial aerosol : a back-of-the-envelope estimate -- 5.2. Expected lifetime, cooling, and other aspects -- 5.3. A more general look at light scattering particles -- 5.4. Model predictions of climate alterations -- 5.5. Methods of aerosol insertion -- 5.6. Cost estimates are low 
505 8 |a 6. Can sea level be lowered by cooling to save Miami? -- 6.1. Thermal expansion of sea water -- 6.2. Sea level predictions based on the volcanic eruptions -- 6.3. Sea level predictions using geoengineering and climate models -- 6.4. Saving Miami and Shanghai and Venice by lowering the sea. 
520 3 |a 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. 
521 |a General/trade. 
530 |a Also available in print. 
538 |a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
538 |a System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader. 
545 |a Edward Wolf is a Professor at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering. He earned his bachelor's degree at Swarthmore College, and a PhD from Cornell University. His research interests include nanotechnology, solid state physics, electron tunnelling phenomena, graphene superconductivity, electron tunnelling spectroscopy, solar cells, and alternative energy. 
588 0 |a Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 6, 2019). 
650 0 |a Sea level. 
650 0 |a Climatic changes. 
650 0 |a Physics. 
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710 2 |a Morgan & Claypool Publishers,  |e publisher. 
710 2 |a Institute of Physics (Great Britain),  |e publisher. 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |z 9781643274256 
830 0 |a IOP (Series).  |p Release 6. 
830 0 |a IOP concise physics. 
856 4 0 |u https://iopscience.uam.elogim.com/book/978-1-64327-428-7  |z Texto completo