Brian Fagan is an American anthropologist who has written a series of books examining climate's effect on mankind in the past, including one on the Medieval Warm Period and one on the Little Ice Age. His new volume, The Attacking Ocean, looks at sea-level changes.
Like his earlier works, the new volume treads a careful line between the two sides of the climate wars. Global warming is mentioned from time to time, and is the focus of a short epilogue, but there is caution too, and criticism of media hysteria.
Most of the book is focused squarely on the past - the disappearance of Doggerland beneath the waves of the North Sea, life in the Nile Delta, tsunamis and floods and tides, the perennial attempts of man to prepare for them, and man's impotence before the forces of nature.
One theme reoccurs throughout - that we have always lived with the ocean and changes in its level. But Fagan also asks the question of whether the situation is different now, with countless millions living just above sea level. These are fair questions, and ones that might arise even if nobody had ever heard of global warming.
It's an interesting collection of tales, although one I didn't quite find myself engaging with for some reason. You might want to take a look.