Climate, History and the Modern World

By: Hubert H. Lamb

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Hardcover | 20 July 1995 | Edition Number 2

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458 Pages

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24.77 x 16.51 x 3.18

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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 respected scientists warning of dire perils that could result from upsets of the climatic regime. In this internationally acclaimed book, Emeritus Professor 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. This 2nd Edition includes a new preface and postscript reviewing the wealth of literature to emerge in recent years, and discusses implications for a deeper understanding of the problems of future climatic fluctuations and forecasting.

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"From reviews of the first edition: . . . written in a popular style that allows the book to be effectively used by readers not formally trained in the atmospheric sciences. Geographers across the discipline will be comfortable with the technical level used throughout the book."-"Economic Geography "From reviews of the first edition: uL This fascinating book builds upon a lifetime of study of past climates. . . . The book is strongly recommended to all who need to assess the significance of climatic change."-"Australian Meteorological Magazine "From reviews of the first edition: Any book from the prolific pen of Professor Hubert Lamb is always welcome, as one knows that it will be entertaining, wide-ranging and full of good sense. The present work is no exception."-"International Journal of Environmental Studies "From reviews of the first edition: "Climate, History and the Modern World will join that list of very important books which achieve a wide readership, perhaps fuel a next stage of thinking about the subject . . .."-"Progress in Human Geography

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Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Preface	p. xxi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Climate Problem	p. 8
The Development of Climate	p. 21
How Climate Works	p. 23
How Climate Comes to Fluctuate and Change	p. 52
How We Can Reconstruct the Past Record of Climate	p. 74
Climate and History	p. 109
Climate at the Dawn of History	p. 111
In the Times of the Early Civilizations	p. 125
Times of Disturbance and Decline in the Ancient World	p. 139
Roman Times and After	p. 156
Through Viking Times to the High Middle Ages	p. 171
Decline Again in the Late Middle Ages	p. 187
The Little Ice Age	p. 211
The Recovery, 1700 to Around 1950	p. 242
Climate in the Modern World and Questions Over the Future	p. 265
Climate Since 1950	p. 267
The Impact of Climatic Developments on Human Affairs and Human History	p. 283
The Causes of Climate's Fluctuations and Changes	p. 319
Forecasting	p. 346
What Can We Do About It?	p. 369
Recent Developments and the Outlook	p. 383
Notes	p. 393
Suggestions for Further Reading	p. 412
Additional Further Reading for the Second Edition	p. 413
Index	p. 414
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