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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... geological, biological, and human processes. It studies interrelationships in the Earth system and changes and rates of change of environmental variables. It poses new kinds of interdisciplinary questions and proffers new types of ...
... geological, biological, and human processes. It studies interrelationships in the Earth system and changes and rates of change of environmental variables. It poses new kinds of interdisciplinary questions and proffers new types of ...
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... Geological Agency of the Atmosphere 8 The Climatic Determinism of Ellsworth Huntington 9 Global Warming? The Early Twentieth Century 10 Global Cooling, Global Warming: Historical Dimensions Notes Bibliography Index Historical ...
... Geological Agency of the Atmosphere 8 The Climatic Determinism of Ellsworth Huntington 9 Global Warming? The Early Twentieth Century 10 Global Cooling, Global Warming: Historical Dimensions Notes Bibliography Index Historical ...
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... geology, meteorology, paleontology, and physics; and in part from much broader historical currents. All of these fields have been examined before, at least to some extent, by historians with particular disciplinary interests. With ...
... geology, meteorology, paleontology, and physics; and in part from much broader historical currents. All of these fields have been examined before, at least to some extent, by historians with particular disciplinary interests. With ...
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... geological eras and centuries to decades, years, and seasons? How was this accomplished by individuals immersed in and surrounded by the phenomena? How were privileged positions created and defined? The answers are varied and worthy of ...
... geological eras and centuries to decades, years, and seasons? How was this accomplished by individuals immersed in and surrounded by the phenomena? How were privileged positions created and defined? The answers are varied and worthy of ...
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... geological, and astronomical evidence and principles, tended to be most satisfying to those scientists working within a particular disciplinary perspective. Most scientists had one favorite causal mechanism and only grudgingly admitted ...
... geological, and astronomical evidence and principles, tended to be most satisfying to those scientists working within a particular disciplinary perspective. Most scientists had one favorite causal mechanism and only grudgingly admitted ...
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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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