Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2005-05-19
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:304 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780195189735

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James Rodger Fleming is Professor in the Science, Thechnology, and Society Program at Colby College.

Recensioner i media

The debate over global warming is far from new; in fact, science historian James Fleming has just published a scholarly treatise on the historical debate over global warming entitled Historical Perspectives on Climate Change. I would highly recommend this interesting book for an accurate account of who did what first and who proposed which hypotheses. These things have been muddled in recent literature because very few researchers have taken the time to go back to the original resources.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Apprehending climate change ; 1. Climate and culture in Enlightenment thought ; 2. The great climate debate in colonial and early America ; 3. Privilieged positions: The expansion of observing systems ; 4. Climate discourse transformed ; 5. Joseph Fourier's theory of terrestrial temperatures ; 6. John Tyndall, Svante Arrhenius, and early research on carbon dioxide and climate ; 7. T.C. Chamberlin and the geological agency of the atmosphere ; 8. The climate determinism of Ellsworth Huntington ; 9. Global Warming? The early twentieth century ; 10. Global cooling, global warming: Historical dimensions ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index