First published in 2012, High Tide on Main Street blazed a new trail in understanding the driving forces behind climate change and its most profound, unstoppable, and least-understood effect, Sea Level Rise (SLR).
In easy-to-understand language, oceanographer and explorer John Englander explains how SLR will become the most permanent effect of climate change. By focusing on sea level, he also provides excellent insights into greenhouse gas emissions – the forces that drive climate change.
One reviewer said: ‘the most understandable book on climate change I have read to date…’
While we are already feeling the effects of disastrous climate change in the form of forest fires, extreme weather, droughts, and floods – we are just beginning to feel the effects of SLR.
Sea level rise, unlike weather events, is permanent, and the science is clear. SLR is increasing faster than at any time in recorded history. And is increasing at an increasing rate. We could see several feet of SLR by 2050, and 5-10 feet (1.5 to 3m) by 2100.
The science is also clear that due to excess heat already stored in our oceans, the sea will continue to rise for hundreds and hundreds of years. Coastal property will go underwater. First, financially, and then, literally.
High Tide On Main Street not only explores the science, but also investigates the devastating economic impacts almost every industry will suffer.
But, far from being a ‘doom and gloom’ vision of the future, Englander introduces five points of ‘intelligent adaptation’; in effect a blueprint for accepting what is to come and a comprehensive plan for dealing with the inevitable coastal crises.
John’s second book on the same topic, Moving to Higher Ground, Rising Sea Level and the Path Forward, was published in 2021.
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High Tide on Main Street; Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis
Table of Contents
Foreword: Jean-Michel Cousteau
Preface: Post-Sandy Second Edition
Introduction: Governor Christine Todd Whitman
Chapter One: Aboard the Titanic
Chapter Two: Earth’s 612-foot Elevator
Chapter Three: A Billion to a Million Years Ago
Chapter Four: A Million to 6, 000 Years Ago
Chapter Five: Past 6, 000-8, 000 Years
Chapter Six: The Present and Future (2000 – 3000 A.D.)
Chapter Seven: On Thinning Ice
Chapter Eight: CO2 and You
Chapter Nine: Sources of Confusion
Chapter Ten: Why Projections Underestimate
Chapter Eleven: A Few Feet-What’s the Big Deal?
Chapter Twelve: Miami, Manila and Much More
Chapter Thirteen: Property Values Go Underwater
Chapter Fourteen: Defend or Retreat
Chapter Fifteen: Intelligent Adaptation
Chapter Sixteen: New Technology and Political Will
Chapter Seventeen: Moving to Higher Ground
Afterword
Resources and Links
References
Figures, Illustrations and Photos
Index
Acknowledgements
About the Author
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John Englander is a renowned oceanographer, multi-book author, speaker, and expert on climate change and sea level rise. His 2012 book, High Tide on Main Street, explained the science in easy-to-understand terms. Politico listed it as one of the top fifty books to read.
His broad marine science background, coupled with explorations in Greenland and Antarctica, allows him to see the big-picture impacts of changing climate and rising sea level on society. Millions of people in the US and around the world have read his books or heard his message through blogs and popular talks.
Englander is consistently rated as one of the best speakers on climate change and sea level rise, and works tirelessly to help communities understand why sea level will rise far higher than most can imagine. Quickly.
As a leading spokesperson for ‘intelligent adaptation’, John is the foremost advocate that, globally, we must move to higher ground.
John’s background as a scientist, explorer, entrepreneur, and CEO (International Sea Keepers Society, Cousteau Society) combine to help him analyze not just the scientific impacts of profound SLR, but also the business, economic, and humanitarian impacts.
Learn more: www.johnenglander.net
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