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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Detalles Bibliográficos
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.
Temas:
Sea level.
Climatic changes.
Physics.
Ecological science, the Biosphere.
SCIENCE / Environmental Science (see also Chemistry / Environmental).
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.

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