Historical Perspectives on Climate ChangeOxford University Press, 14 jul 2005 - 208 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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... civilization and even the habitability of the planet. Much of the concern is rightfully focused on changes in the atmosphere caused by human activities. Only a century after the discovery of the stratosphere, only five decades after the ...
... civilization and even the habitability of the planet. Much of the concern is rightfully focused on changes in the atmosphere caused by human activities. Only a century after the discovery of the stratosphere, only five decades after the ...
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... civilization might take root 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 ...
... civilization might take root 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 ...
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... civilization and climate and his crude efforts to link human performance directly to changes in the weather have been summarily rejected. Yet he was a practitioner of a perennial philosophy of climatic influence, and his errors and ...
... civilization and climate and his crude efforts to link human performance directly to changes in the weather have been summarily rejected. Yet he was a practitioner of a perennial philosophy of climatic influence, and his errors and ...
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... civilization and less suitable for the primitive native cultures. Such ideas crossed the Atlantic in two directions. Initially, travel accounts from the New World influenced some of the climate ideas of European thinkers. Their works ...
... civilization and less suitable for the primitive native cultures. Such ideas crossed the Atlantic in two directions. Initially, travel accounts from the New World influenced some of the climate ideas of European thinkers. Their works ...
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... civilization of the American states to compare favorably “with the Grecian republics, or any other people recorded in history.”22 According to Samuel Williams, author of the Natural and Civil History of Vermont, the recent change in the ...
... civilization of the American states to compare favorably “with the Grecian republics, or any other people recorded in history.”22 According to Samuel Williams, author of the Natural and Civil History of Vermont, the recent change in the ...
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The Expansion of Observing Systems | |
Climate Discourse Transformed | |
Joseph Fouriers Theory of Terrestrial Temperatures | |
John Tyndall Svante Arrhenius and Early Research on Carbon Dioxide and Climate | |
T C Chamberlin and the Geological Agency of the Atmosphere | |
The Climatic Determinism of Ellsworth Huntington | |
Global Warming? The Early Twentieth Century | |
Historical Dimensions | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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