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Historical perspectives on climate change / James Rodger Fleming.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fleming, James Rodger.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes--Europe--History.
- Climatic changes.
- Climatic changes--United States--History.
- Global environmental change--History.
- Global environmental change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 194p. ) ill., maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Historical Perspectives on Climate Change' provides historical perspectives on the climate apprehensions of scientists and the general public from the Englightenment to the late twentieth century. Issues discussed include what people have understood, experienced and feared about the climate and its changes in the past; how privileged and authoritative positions on climate have been established; the paths by which we have arrived at our current state of knowledge and apprehension; and what a study of the past has to offer to the interdisciplinary investigation of environmental problems.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction: Apprehending Climate Change
- 1 Climate and Culture in Enlightenment Thought
- 2 The Great Climate Debate in Colonial and Early America
- 3 Privileged 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 Climatic Determinism of Ellsworth Huntington
- 9 Global Warming? The Early Twentieth Century
- 10 Global Cooling, Global Warming: Historical Dimensions
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756036-9
- 1-280-76019-2
- 9786610760190
- 0-19-802406-1
- OCLC:
- 666991849
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