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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James R. Fleming (Meteorologist and Historian, Meteorologist and Historian, Colby College, Maine, USA)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.40cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 15.60cm Weight: 0.476kg ISBN: 9780195078701ISBN 10: 0195078705 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 15 October 1998 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 IndexReviewsFleming presents...academic work, with a superb bibliography, and places the development of the science of the greenhouse effect in a context of the scientific concepts of the day. Nature, 21/10/99 A lucid, well-written, and skillfully presented work; the bibliography is bountiful and sources of information are well-documented. . . . [for] General readers; faculty. --Choice<br> Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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