Sea-Level Rise and Climate Change
John McPhee called: The Control of Nature. Its a great book and would be useful for anybody taking environmental studies/policy or disaster management courses (great basis for a research paper, hint, hint). It covers exactly what happened along the Mississippi River in 2011.
So much has been put out in the media about global warming and the greenhouse effect. Now the Earth has had wide variations in atmospheric CO2-level throughout its long history before the evolution of humans and certainly before the Industrial Revolution. In terms of the oceans and the Earths whole history then could you find information to support the coal and oil industrys claims that were NOT the cause of climate change? Also read the attached article about the controversy. Remember too that there is a lot of money and certainly politics involved in this issue. Some scientists have built their whole careers on trying to prove or disprove the human connections to global warming.