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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... human efforts might improve the climate of the New World fueled a significant debate in colonial and early America. This debate is examined in chapter 2. Colonists and patriots hoped that by pushing back the wilderness and displacing ...
... human efforts might improve the climate of the New World fueled a significant debate in colonial and early America. This debate is examined in chapter 2. Colonists and patriots hoped that by pushing back the wilderness and displacing ...
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... human performance directly to changes in the weather have been summarily rejected. Yet he was a practitioner of a perennial philosophy of climatic influence, and his errors and excesses serve as an example of how not to study the human ...
... human performance directly to changes in the weather have been summarily rejected. Yet he was a practitioner of a perennial philosophy of climatic influence, and his errors and excesses serve as an example of how not to study the human ...
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... human activity, is not new. Although the Baron C.L. de Montesquieu is undoubtedly the best known Enlightenment thinker on the topic of climatic determinism, others, notably the Abbé Du Bos, David Hume, and Thomas Jefferson, observed ...
... human activity, is not new. Although the Baron C.L. de Montesquieu is undoubtedly the best known Enlightenment thinker on the topic of climatic determinism, others, notably the Abbé Du Bos, David Hume, and Thomas Jefferson, observed ...
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... human minds and bodies: During the life of a man, and as long as the soul continues united to the body, the character of our minds and inclinations depends very much on the quality of our blood, which nourishes our organs, and furnishes ...
... human minds and bodies: During the life of a man, and as long as the soul continues united to the body, the character of our minds and inclinations depends very much on the quality of our blood, which nourishes our organs, and furnishes ...
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... human body: respiration, food, and water. The air we breathe “communicates to the blood in our lungs the qualities ... humans in everything they consume—fruits, vegetables, even “beasts whose flesh they eventually convert into their own ...
... human body: respiration, food, and water. The air we breathe “communicates to the blood in our lungs the qualities ... humans in everything they consume—fruits, vegetables, even “beasts whose flesh they eventually convert into their own ...
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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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