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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... thought to depend only on the height of the Sun above the horizon, a function of the latitude. A second tradition, traceable to Aristotle, linked the quality of the air (and thus the climate) to the vapors and exhalations of a country ...
... thought to depend only on the height of the Sun above the horizon, a function of the latitude. A second tradition, traceable to Aristotle, linked the quality of the air (and thus the climate) to the vapors and exhalations of a country ...
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... thought linking climate change and culture can be traced to the diplomat, historian, and critic Abbé JeanBaptiste Du Bos, member of the French Academy (later perpetual secretary), and author of Réflexions critiques sur la poësie et sur ...
... thought linking climate change and culture can be traced to the diplomat, historian, and critic Abbé JeanBaptiste Du Bos, member of the French Academy (later perpetual secretary), and author of Réflexions critiques sur la poësie et sur ...
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... 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 example ...
... 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 example ...
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... thought that because of this the people were “more yellow, more defective in their make, [and] more weakly and sickly” than elsewhere. Due to the poor air quality, communities of Christians transplanted there by the emperor Abas the ...
... thought that because of this the people were “more yellow, more defective in their make, [and] more weakly and sickly” than elsewhere. Due to the poor air quality, communities of Christians transplanted there by the emperor Abas the ...
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... thought that similar but much more rapid changes were occurring in the Americas as the forests were cleared. “Our northern colonies in America become more temperate, in proportion as the woods are felled; but in general, every one may ...
... thought that similar but much more rapid changes were occurring in the Americas as the forests were cleared. “Our northern colonies in America become more temperate, in proportion as the woods are felled; but in general, every one may ...
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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