| HIGH TIDE ON MAIN STREET Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis (rev. 2.1) John Englander Jean-Michel Cousteau (Fwd.) Christine Todd Whitman (Intro. to 2nd ed.) Boca Raton, FL: The Science Bookshelf, 2014 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-615-63795-2 | ||||
| ISBN-10 0-615-63795-7 | 227pp. | SC/BWI | $19.86 | |
| Page 38: | "If the temperature is near freezing, just a single degree of warming or cooling will determine whether that frozen water remains on land, or melts and finds its way to the ocean, raising sea level." |
| Word order: S/B "that water remains frozen on land". |
| Page 62: | "While the melting Arctic ice cap represents a profound and disruptive change, it has almost no direct effect on sea level rise because, a mentioned at the beginning of this chapter, the Arctic ice cap floats on water , not on land." |
| Highlighted comma and words are not needed and should be deleted. |
| Page 62: | "When the bright snow and ice melts and is replaced by very dark water, it becomes a heat-absorbing surface, reflecting only about six percent of the sun's energy." |
| Number errors: S/B "melt and are". Also, "Sun's". |
| Page 73: | "For decades to come that will include more snow in some areas, and in others lots of rain; in others, drought." |
| Missing word: S/B "in still others, drought. |
| Page 73: | "Remember, it is important to look at five to 10 year trends rather than yearly weather data." |
| Format: S/B "5- to 10-year" or (more likely) "five- to ten-year". |
| Page 83: | "You may remember from school that objects attract in proportion to their mass; the greater the density, the greater the pull." |
| Strictly speaking, this is incorrect: S/B "the greater the mass, the greater the pull". Density and mass are not equivalent. |
| Page 98: | "Fortunately, new laser-based LIDAR (Light Image Detection and Range) mapping, done from airplanes, is gradually replacing the old maps..." |
| Wrong word: S/B "Ranging" based on the analogy with RADAR. |
| Page 114: | "Though fascinating and inventive, we cannot rely on this technology to protect a significant portion of the world's coral reefs." |
| Dangling participle: S/B "this technology cannot be relied on". (However, I'd be happy to acknowledge that John Englander and his group are fascinating and innovative.) |
| Page 117: | Chapter title: "Miami, Maldives and Much More" |
| Differs from title of Chapter 12 in table of contents: "Miami, Manila and Much More". |
| Page 126: | "The Dutch simply cannot avoid the dangers of its low-lying landscape." |
| Number error: S/B "their". |
| Page 133: | "Built two centuries ago, one of the goals was to stop the flooding of low-lying areas at high tide levels." |
| Missing words: S/B "one of the Hornsby Vellard's goals. |
| Page 135: | "To their credit the city and provincial governments are looking at climate change adaptation strategies such as enhancements to the four decade-old dike system." |
| Missing hyphen: S/B "four-decade-old". |
| Page 147: | "Using a crude estimate of two million dollars an acre, that translates to something like 50 billion dollars worth of the land, not counting the cost to replace the structures and infrastructure." |
| Extra word: S/B "worth of land". |
| Page 171: | "My notes reflect four of his insights strike me as relevant to this issue:" |
| Missing word: S/B "four of his insights that strike me". |
| Page 185: | "In May 2011, the Pontifical Academy of Science produced an easily read, 17-page, outstanding report (download at johnenglander.net/vatican)." |
| Link rot: That link takes me to a page with just the report's title. Below is another link, which gives me a 404. The report is widely available on the Web, however. Here is the Vatican's own link. |
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