ISBN:
9780198024064
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0198024061
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 194 p.)
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ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Fleming, James Rodger Historical perspectives on climate change
DDC:
306.45
Keywords:
Climatic changes History
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Europe
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Climatic changes History
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United States
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Global environmental change History
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Climat Changements
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Histoire
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Europe
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Climat Changements
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Histoire
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États-Unis
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Changement global (Environnement) Histoire
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Europa
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USA
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Europe
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United States
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Climatic changes History
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Climatic changes History
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Global environmental change History
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Climatic changes
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Global environmental change
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Klimaänderung
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Geschichte
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Meteorologische Beobachtung
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Klimaatveranderingen
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Geschichte 1700-1960
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SCIENCE ; Philosophy & Social Aspects
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History
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Europa
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USA
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Europe
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United States
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Electronic books History
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 d
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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