SCIENCE - Global Warming & Climate Change. Sea level - Climatic factors - Arctic regions Glaciers - Climatic factors - Arctic regions Includes bibliographical references and index Gornitz highlights the widespread repercussions of ice loss, which will affect countless people far removed from frozen regions, to demonstrate why the big meltdown matters to us all"- Provided by publisher Drawing on a long-term perspective gained by examining changes in the cryosphere and corresponding variations in sea level over millions of years, she demonstrates the link between thawing ice and sea-level rise to point to the social and economic challenges on the horizon. At the ice sheet’s maximum extent, sediments transported by the ice were deposited where the ice went afloat, expanding the shallow reaches of the continental shelf each time the ice sheets grew. Delving into the major components of the cryosphere, including ice sheets, valley glaciers, permafrost, and floating ice, Vivien Gornitz gives an up-to-date explanation of key current trends in the decline of ice mass. Vanishing Ice is a powerful depiction of the dramatic transformation of the cryosphere-the world of ice and snow-and its consequences for the human world. Eyes in the sky-monitoring the cryosphere from above - Appendix C. Anticipating future climate change - Appendix B. Whither the snows of yesteryear? - Ice afloat : ice shelves, icebergs, and sea ice - Impermanent permafrost - Darkening mountains-disappearing glaciers - The Greenland ice sheet - Antarctica : the giant ice locker - From greenhouse to icehouse - Return to the greenhouse - The importance of ice - Appendix A. 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages) : illustrations, maps
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