Historical Perspectives on Climate Change

James Rodger Fleming (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2005
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-518973-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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

Zusatzinfo	11 line illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	304 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie
ISBN-10	0-19-518973-6 / 0195189736
ISBN-13	978-0-19-518973-5 / 9780195189735
Zustand	Neuware