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Waking the Giant - How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes (Paperback)
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Waking the Giant - How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 3 740
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Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures
were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of
Europe and North America and sea levels were 130m lower. The
following 15 millennia saw an astonishing transformation as our
planet metamorphosed into the temperate world upon which our
civilisation has grown and thrived. One of the most dynamic periods
in Earth history saw rocketing temperatures melt the great ice
sheets like butter on a hot summer's day; feeding torrents of
freshwater into ocean basins that rapidly filled to present levels.
The removal of the enormous weight of ice at high latitudes caused
the crust to bounce back triggering earthquakes in Europe and North
America and provoking an unprecedented volcanic outburst in
Iceland. A giant submarine landslide off the coast of Norway sent a
tsunami crashing onto the Scottish coast while around the margins
of the continents the massive load exerted on the crust by soaring
sea levels encouraged a widespread seismic and volcanic rejoinder.
In many ways, this post-glacial world mirrors that projected to
arise as a consequence of unmitigated climate change driven by
human activities. Already there are signs that the effects of
climbing global temperatures are causing the sleeping giant to stir
once again. Could it be that we are on track to bequeath to our
children and their children not only a far hotter world, but also a
more geologically fractious one?
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