Historical Perspectives on Climate ChangeOUP USA, 1998 - 194 páginas This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century. Based on primary and archival sources, the book is filled with interesting perspectives on what people have understood, experienced, and feared about the climate and its changes in the past. Chapters explore climate and culture in Enlightenment thought; climate debates in early America; the development of international networks of observation; the scientific transformation of climate discourse; and early contributions to understanding terrestrial temperature changes, infrared radiation, and the carbon dioxide theory of climate. But perhaps most important, this book shows what a study of the past has to offer the interdisciplinary investigation of current environmental problems. |
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... National Endowment for the Humani- ties . During this time I was a visiting scholar in the Program in Sci- ence , Technology , and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology and a research associate with the Department of ...
... National Endowment for the Humani- ties . During this time I was a visiting scholar in the Program in Sci- ence , Technology , and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Tech- nology and a research associate with the Department of ...
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... National Academy of Sciences Archives , the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration , and Yale Univer- sity Library . Permission to reproduce figures was granted by the Con- troller of Her Britannic Majesty's Stationary Office ...
... National Academy of Sciences Archives , the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration , and Yale Univer- sity Library . Permission to reproduce figures was granted by the Con- troller of Her Britannic Majesty's Stationary Office ...
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... on American soil . Expectations that the American climate was becoming warmer , less variable , and healthier swelled the national pride and swayed the practical decisions of yeoman farmers . This vision was an 8 INTRODUCTION.
... on American soil . Expectations that the American climate was becoming warmer , less variable , and healthier swelled the national pride and swayed the practical decisions of yeoman farmers . This vision was an 8 INTRODUCTION.
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... national ideal . Early Ameri- cans , hoping to document climatic changes , faithfully kept weather diaries and compiled observations over large expanses of the country . Chapter 3 deals with the growth of observing systems and the de ...
... national ideal . Early Ameri- cans , hoping to document climatic changes , faithfully kept weather diaries and compiled observations over large expanses of the country . Chapter 3 deals with the growth of observing systems and the de ...
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Climate and Culture in Enlightenment Thought | 11 |
The Great Climate Debate in Colonial and Early America | 21 |
Privileged Positions The Expansion of Observing Systems | 33 |
Climate Discourse Transformed | 45 |
Joseph Fouriers Theory of Terrestrial Temperatures | 55 |
John Tyndall Svante Arrhenius and Early Research on Carbon Dioxide and Climate | 65 |
T C Chamberlin and the Geological Agency of the Atmosphere | 83 |
The Climatic Determinism of Ellsworth Huntington | 95 |
Global Warming? The Early Twentieth Century | 107 |
Global Cooling Global Warming Historical Dimensions | 129 |
Notes | 139 |
Bibliography | 167 |
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