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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... early America. This debate is examined in chapter 2. Colonists and patriots hoped that by pushing back the wilderness and displacing “primitive” native cultures, a flourishing civilization might take root on American soil. Expectations ...
... early America. This debate is examined in chapter 2. Colonists and patriots hoped that by pushing back the wilderness and displacing “primitive” native cultures, a flourishing civilization might take root on American soil. Expectations ...
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... early American nationals.33 While colonists were initially surprised by the rigor of the climate, many European intellectuals held the climate in disdain and thought the colonists were foolhardy to be risking their lives and health. New ...
... early American nationals.33 While colonists were initially surprised by the rigor of the climate, many European intellectuals held the climate in disdain and thought the colonists were foolhardy to be risking their lives and health. New ...
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... early America and remained so until the middle of the nineteenth century. If the climate could truly be transformed, the implications were enormous, involving the health, wellbeing, and prosperity of all. There were contrarians, however ...
... early America and remained so until the middle of the nineteenth century. If the climate could truly be transformed, the implications were enormous, involving the health, wellbeing, and prosperity of all. There were contrarians, however ...
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... heate and cold; So it also participateth of the benefits of bothe, and is capable (being assisted with skill and industry) of the richest commodities of most parts of the 5 Earth.”9 Nor was this just an early colonial promotion. In.
... heate and cold; So it also participateth of the benefits of bothe, and is capable (being assisted with skill and industry) of the richest commodities of most parts of the 5 Earth.”9 Nor was this just an early colonial promotion. In.
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James Rodger Fleming. Earth.”9 Nor was this just an early colonial promotion. In a letter to the American Philosophical Society written in 1769, Edward Antill expressed similar sentiments: Whoever considers the general climate of North ...
James Rodger Fleming. Earth.”9 Nor was this just an early colonial promotion. In a letter to the American Philosophical Society written in 1769, Edward Antill expressed similar sentiments: Whoever considers the general climate of North ...
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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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