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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... William Deiss and Libby Glenn at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, William Massa at Yale's Sterling Library, Mrs. I. M. McCabe at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and Steven S. R. B. Smith at the Center of Historical Studies ...
... William Deiss and Libby Glenn at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, William Massa at Yale's Sterling Library, Mrs. I. M. McCabe at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and Steven S. R. B. Smith at the Center of Historical Studies ...
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... Williams, Charlie Weiner, Merritt Roe Smith, Barbara Rozenkrantz, Larry Buehl, Timothy Weiskel, James Risbey, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr., come immediately to mind. I thank them all for their support, encouragement, and sound advice. John ...
... Williams, Charlie Weiner, Merritt Roe Smith, Barbara Rozenkrantz, Larry Buehl, Timothy Weiskel, James Risbey, and Sam Bass Warner, Jr., come immediately to mind. I thank them all for their support, encouragement, and sound advice. John ...
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... Williams, author of the Natural and Civil History of Vermont, the recent change in the climate of America was “so rapid and constant, that it is the subject of common observation and experience.” He linked the longterm warming of the ...
... Williams, author of the Natural and Civil History of Vermont, the recent change in the climate of America was “so rapid and constant, that it is the subject of common observation and experience.” He linked the longterm warming of 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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