Climate, History and the Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780415127349 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 460 str.

H. H. Lamb; Hubert H. Lamb; H. Lamb Hubert

Opis

We live in a world that is increasingly vulnerable to climatic shocks - affecting agriculture and industry, government and international trade, not to mention human health and happiness. Serious anxieties have been aroused by scientists warning of dire perils that could result from upsets of the climatic regime. In this book, Hubert Lamb examines what we know about climate, how the past record of climate can be reconstructed, the causes of climatic variation, and its impact on human affairs now and in the historical and prehistoric past.

Recenzje

` ... he has succeeded in placing himself at the strategic centre of the problem. From there he has been able to undertake fascinating excursions into all sorts of fields ... the crowning achievement of a splendid career.' - Times Literary Supplement

O autorze

Lamb, Hubert H.