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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... scientific transformation of climate discourse, and early contributions to understanding terrestrial temperature changes, infrared radiation, and the carbon dioxide theory of climate. Global change views the Earth as an interconnected ...
... scientific transformation of climate discourse, and early contributions to understanding terrestrial temperature changes, infrared radiation, and the carbon dioxide theory of climate. Global change views the Earth as an interconnected ...
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... scientific mode of climatological discourse. These are followed by chapters on individual scientists and writers: Joseph Fourier, John Tyndall, Svante Arrhenius, T. C. Chamberlin, and the environmental determinist Ellsworth Huntington ...
... scientific mode of climatological discourse. These are followed by chapters on individual scientists and writers: Joseph Fourier, John Tyndall, Svante Arrhenius, T. C. Chamberlin, and the environmental determinist Ellsworth Huntington ...
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... scientific statements such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); almost none of it is informed by historical sensibility. In the “race to save the planet” (to borrow from the PBS film series of the same name) ...
... scientific statements such as those by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); almost none of it is informed by historical sensibility. In the “race to save the planet” (to borrow from the PBS film series of the same name) ...
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... scientific understanding of it emerge? What are the historical relationships among the numerous and quite varied theories of and ideas about climatic change? In addition to their scientific bases, how were they related to more general ...
... scientific understanding of it emerge? What are the historical relationships among the numerous and quite varied theories of and ideas about climatic change? In addition to their scientific bases, how were they related to more general ...
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... scientific discoveries were supposed to have waylaid such superstitious fears, and Franklin's lightning rods comforted and protected both believers and skeptics. During the Enlightenment, some philosophes believed that culture was ...
... scientific discoveries were supposed to have waylaid such superstitious fears, and Franklin's lightning rods comforted and protected both believers and skeptics. During the Enlightenment, some philosophes believed that culture was ...
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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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