Historical Perspectives on Climate Change
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 19 May 2005
- ISBN 9780195189735
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages208 pages
- Size 234x156x11 mm
- Weight 304 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 11 line illus. 0
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Long description:
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.
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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Apprehending climate change
Climate and culture in Enlightenment thought
The great climate debate in colonial and early America
Privilieged positions: The expansion of observing systems
Climate discourse transformed
Joseph Fourier's 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 climate determinism of Ellsworth Huntington
Global Warming? The early twentieth century
Global cooling, global warming: Historical dimensions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
