Weather, Climate and Human Affairs : A Book of Essays and Other Papers

ISBN-13: 9780415676434 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 380 str.

John Smith

Opis

This collection of essays is written by one of the world's foremost experts on weather and climate. Six of the chapters have not been published before. The rest have been thoroughly revised. The author provides an authoritative voice in the current debates about today's environment and the prospects for the future.

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1. Introduction  Part 1: Studies of Climatic History and its Effects on Human Affairs and Environment  2. The Earth's Restless Climate  3. Climate and History in Northern Europe and Everywhere Else in the Last Thousand Years  4. Climate and Life During the Middle Ages, Studied Especially in the Mountains of Europe  5. The Climate Theory of Race in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century Literature and its Modern Implications  6. Climate in Historical Times and Transgressions of the Sea, Storm Floods and Other Coastal Changes  7. Some Aspects of the Little Ice Age and Other Periods of Cold, Disturbed Climate  8. Studies of the Little Ice Age: I, The Great Storms and Data Available for Establishing Details of the Period  9. Studies in the Little Ice Age: II, Changes in the Winds and Ocean Currents in the North-East Atlantic Region  10. Climate and Human, Animal and Crop Diseases, an Example: the Great Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s and some Lessons for Today  11. The Recent Increase of Storminess in and Around the North Sea Region and Related Changes Since the Twentieth-Century Climatic Optimum  12. Drought in Africa: the Climatic Background to a Threatening Problem of Today's World  Part 2: Climate and Weather Changes, Causes and Mechanisms  13. Causes and Time-Scales of Climatic Change  14. An Outline of the World's Wind Circulation and Weather Systems, and their Part in Variations of Weather and Climate, with Notes of some Relationships to Birds and the Living World  15. Christmas to New Year Weather as an Indicator of the Tendency of the Large-Scale Wind Circulation and Climate  16. Fronts and their Life History  17. Volcanoes and climate: An Updated Assessment  Part III: Conclusion: What of the Future  18. The Future of the Earth: Greenhouse or Refrigerator

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H. H. Lamb