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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... Europe and the Mediterranean area had changed gradually since antiquity and had caused a decline of creative genius in certain nations. His theory also implied that the deforestation and increased cultivation of North America would ...
... Europe and the Mediterranean area had changed gradually since antiquity and had caused a decline of creative genius in certain nations. His theory also implied that the deforestation and increased cultivation of North America would ...
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... Europe was thought incapable of mixing with the air or with the chyle produced by the food of America. The only medical remedies were bleeding and gradual acclimatization. Other effects of changing climatic zones were more rapid. For ...
... Europe was thought incapable of mixing with the air or with the chyle produced by the food of America. The only medical remedies were bleeding and gradual acclimatization. Other effects of changing climatic zones were more rapid. For ...
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... Europe. Allowing, therefore, this remark [of Du Bos] to be just, that Europe is become warmer than formerly; how can we account for it? Plainly, by no other method, than by supposing that the land is at present much better cultivated ...
... Europe. Allowing, therefore, this remark [of Du Bos] to be just, that Europe is become warmer than formerly; how can we account for it? Plainly, by no other method, than by supposing that the land is at present much better cultivated ...
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... Europe and America shaping the course of empire and the arts; the concerted efforts of innumerable individuals in turn shaping the climate itself. By the end of the eighteenth century, Enlightenment thinkers had come to the following ...
... Europe and America shaping the course of empire and the arts; the concerted efforts of innumerable individuals in turn shaping the climate itself. By the end of the eighteenth century, Enlightenment thinkers had come to the following ...
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... European expansion, were stimulated by the writings of explorers, colonists, and travelers. Initially, colonists were ... Europe, which “came suddenly with a darkblue cloud and tore up oaks that had a girt of three fathoms.”2 Another ...
... European expansion, were stimulated by the writings of explorers, colonists, and travelers. Initially, colonists were ... Europe, which “came suddenly with a darkblue cloud and tore up oaks that had a girt of three fathoms.”2 Another ...
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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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