The Earth's oceans are on the rise. Since 1900, global sea levels have risen steadily each year to a global average of about 20cm today, and they're still rising. By 2100, the sea could climb as much as 4.3m to 9.75m. Rising Seas: Flooding, Climate Change and Our New World gives youth an eye-popping view of what the Earth might look like under the rising and falling water levels of climate change. Photographs juxtapose the present-day with that same area's projected future. The shocking images will help them understand the urgency for action. Key issues in today's news will be better understand, such as the 2015 Paris Protocol in which the world agreed to limit temperature increases to 2 degrees C (ideally 1.5 degrees). AGES: 9 to 13 AUTHOR: Keltie Thomas is the author of Do Fish Fart?, How Hockey Works, Animals that Changed the World, and The Kids Guide to Money Cent$, as well as many other highly acclaimed children's books nominated for several awards. Most recently, Do Fish Fart? won the Award of Merit from the Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority.
