Sea Surge (6/18/13)
b'Humans have been using their ingenuity to deal with sea level rise, floods, and fluctuating coasts for the past 15,000 years, and recent extreme events have emphasized the need to adapt. \\u201cThere are no easy solutions to adaptation,\\u201d says Brian Fagan, author of \\u201cThe Attacking Ocean\\u201d, but we can learn from historic sea walls in the Netherlands, cyclones in the Indian Ocean, and other major oceanic events over the last 10,000 years. \\u201cThe global ocean has actually done us this incredible favor by buffering us from a variety of effects of climate change and our fossil fuel addiction,\\u201d says Meg Caldwell, Executive Director of the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford. However the combination of warming waters, acidification, and lower oxygen levels have have the oceans at their limit. A conversation with an archaeologist and a lawyer on sea level rise, climate refugees, and the impact of climate change on the world\\u2019s oceans. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California on June 18, 2013\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'