ISBN:
9780198024064
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (209 pages)
DDC:
306.4/5
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Klimatologie
;
Erwärmung
;
Klimaänderung
;
Sedimenttransport
;
Klimaschwankung
;
Abkühlung
;
USA
Abstract:
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.
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