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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... climate, as advocated by Arrhenius and Chamberlin. Other mechanisms of climatic change—especially changes in solar luminosity, atmospheric transparency, and the Earth's orbital elements—received more attention. As temperatures reached ...
... climate, as advocated by Arrhenius and Chamberlin. Other mechanisms of climatic change—especially changes in solar luminosity, atmospheric transparency, and the Earth's orbital elements—received more attention. As temperatures reached ...
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... climate to health and national character. As late as 1779, the Encyclopdédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond D'Alembert defined “climat” geographically, as a “portion or zone of the surface of the Earth, enclosed within two circles ...
... climate to health and national character. As late as 1779, the Encyclopdédie of Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond D'Alembert defined “climat” geographically, as a “portion or zone of the surface of the Earth, enclosed within two circles ...
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... land, soil, and especially climate). In chapter 13 he offers three “critical reflections” in support of this thesis: First reflection: There are countries and times in which arts and sciences do not flourish, notwithstanding the ...
... land, soil, and especially climate). In chapter 13 he offers three “critical reflections” in support of this thesis: First reflection: There are countries and times in which arts and sciences do not flourish, notwithstanding the ...
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... degrees north); that changes in climate must have occurred to account for the rise and decline of the creative spirit ... earth. “Naturalists prove also that the air is likewise filled with an infinite number of small animals and their ...
... degrees north); that changes in climate must have occurred to account for the rise and decline of the creative spirit ... earth. “Naturalists prove also that the air is likewise filled with an infinite number of small animals and their ...
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... Earth. If the quality of the emanations varied, so would the temperature and quality of the air. Such climatic changes could impact the spirit and humor of the people of a particular country, making some generations (in France, for ...
... Earth. If the quality of the emanations varied, so would the temperature and quality of the air. Such climatic changes could impact the spirit and humor of the people of a particular country, making some generations (in France, for ...
Índice
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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