文档介绍：CLIMATE, HISTORY AND THE MODERN
WORLD
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, Hubert Lamb explores 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 second edition incorporates important new material on: recent advances
in weather forecasting, global warming, the ozone layer, pollution, and
population growth. Providing a valuable introduction to the problems and results
of the most recent research activity, this book extends our understanding of the
interactions between climate and history, and discusses implications for future
climatic fluctuations and forecasting.
is Emeritus Professor in the School of Environmental Sciences
and was the Founder and first Director of the Climatic Research Unit at the
University of East Anglia.
To Moira, my wife,
for her loving constant support
CLIMATE, HISTORY AND
THE MODERN WORLD
Second edition
London and New York
First published 1982
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