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Sunburnt country : the history and future of climate change in Australia /
What does climate change in Australia really look like?What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries ab...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carlton, Victoria :
Melbourne University Publishing,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Part I: Colonial Calamities; 1: The Start of a Rocky Relationship; 2: Unearthing Australia's Climate History; 3: Life in Sodden Isolation; 4: Australia's Climatic Tug of War; 5: Twin Blows; 6: Rescued from the Rooftops; 7: Scarcely a Passing Shower; 8: 'The Changes Are Truly Astonishing'; Part II: Weather Watchers; 9: What Does 'on Record' Actually Mean?; 10: The Weatherman; 11: Australia's Early Climate Records; 12: Frost and Fire; 13: Bursting Bubbles of Optimism; 14: Dust and Desolation; 15: Gumboot Weather; 16: Wisdom of the Elders
- Part III: Time Travellers17: Sentinels of Deep Time; 18: Old-growth Records; 19: Tales from the Tropics; 20: Frozen in Time; 21: Ebbs and Flows; 22: Piecing Together the Climate Jigsaw; 23: Taking the Temperature of the Southern Hemisphere; 24: The Saga of the Millennium; 25: Welcome to the Anthropocene; Part IV: History Repeating?; 26: What about the Ice Ages?; 27: Natural Variability Versus Human Influence; 28: Life in a Shifting Climate; 29: Human Fingerprints on Our Climate; 30: Up in Flames; 31: Vanishing Snow; 32: Flooding Rains; 33: Girt by Rising Seas; Part V: The Age of Consequences
- 34: The 'New Normal'35: Redrawing Our Maps; 36: Silent Killers; 37: The Living Dead; 38: A Symbolic Start; 39: Our Political Hot Potato; 40: The Clean Energy Revolution; 41: We Are All in This Together; Acknowledgements; References; Index