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  • Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change

    Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth's climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of...
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  • Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    Escaping Nature: How to Survive Global Climate Change

    Industrial and agricultural greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly warming Earth's climate, unleashing rising seas, ocean acidification, melting permafrost, powerful storms, wildfires, floods, deadly heat waves, droughts, tsunamis, food shortages, and armed conflict over shrinking water supplies while reducing nutritional levels in crops. Billions of...
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  • Global Climate Change: A Primer by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    Global Climate Change: A Primer

    An internationally recognized expert on the geology of barrier islands, Orrin H. Pilkey is one of the rare academics who engages in public advocacy about science-related issues. He has written dozens of books and articles explaining coastal processes to lay readers, and he is...
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  • How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    How to Read a North Carolina Beach: Bubble Holes, Barking Sands, and Rippled Runnels

    Take a walk on the beach with three coastal experts who reveal the secrets and the science of the North Carolina shoreline. What makes sea foam? What are those tiny sand volcanoes along the waterline? You'll find the answers to these questions and dozens...
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  • Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    Retreat from a Rising Sea: Hard Choices in an Age of Climate Change

    Melting ice sheets and warming oceans are causing the seas to rise. By the end of this century, hundreds of millions of people living at low elevations along coasts will be forced to retreat to higher and safer ground. Because of sea-level rise, major...
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  • Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    Sea Level Rise: A Slow Tsunami on America's Shores

    The consequences of twenty-first-century sea level rise on the United States and its nearly 90,000 miles of shoreline will be immense: Miami and New Orleans will disappear; many nuclear and other power plants, hundreds of wastewater plants and toxic waste sites, and oil production...
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  • The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands: Restless Ribbons of Sand

    The North Carolina Shore and Its Barrier Islands is the latest volume in the series, Living with the Shore. Replacing an earlier volume, this thoroughly new book provides a diverse guide to one of America's most popular shorelines. As is true for all books...
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  • The World's Beaches by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    The World's Beaches

    Take this book to the beach; it will open up a whole new world. Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and graphics, it explores one of the planet's most dynamic environments--from tourist beaches to Arctic beaches strewn with ice chunks to steaming hot tropical...
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  • Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental Scientists Can't Predict the Future

    Noted coastal geologist Orrin Pilkey and environmental scientist Linda Pilkey-Jarvis show that the quantitative mathematical models policy makers and government administrators use to form environmental policies are seriously flawed. Based on unrealistic and sometimes false assumptions, these models often yield answers that support unwise...
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  • Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining

    In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world's sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and...
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  • Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining by Pilkey, Orrin H.
    Orrin H. Pilkey

    Vanishing Sands: Losing Beaches to Mining

    In a time of accelerating sea level rise and increasingly intensifying storms, the world's sandy beaches and dunes have never been more crucial to protecting coastal environments. Yet, in order to meet the demands of large-scale construction projects, sand mining is stripping beaches and...
    $99.95
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