Climate Change and Human History provides an up-to-date and concise introduction to the relationship between human beings and climate change throughout history. Starting with periods hundreds of thousands of years ago and continuing up to the present day, the book illustrates how natural climate var...
To understand the climate, we have to first understand time, argues Ian Plimer.We are all...Plimer, IanInstitute of Public AffairsInstitute of Public Affairs Review A Quarterly Review of Politics & Public AffairsPlimer, I. (2009). The natural history of climate change. Institute of Public ...
Nonetheless, historical data sets, especially those collected using a common methodology and/or by a single individual, can provide at least order-of-magnitude indicators of change. Gilbert White (1720-1793) has been identified as one of the most important founders of modern Natural History and ...
Ocean-emitted iodine leads to new particle formation (NPF) in the atmosphere5,6. Recent field observations have demonstrated that iodine is a significant driver of NPF in the central Arctic3and is currently considered a potentially relevant source of CCN3—from which marine clouds originate—that ...
result,since Ming Dynasty,the increase of population and farmlands of the region changed the LUCC,which was the main driving force to lead to the natural disaster frequently happen.On the other hand,the climate change made some influence on natural disasters,specially it was more obvious for ...
The climate change may lead humans to shrink in size. Steve Brusatte, a researcher at the University of Edinburgh, believed that the way that other mammals have previously responded to periods of climate change could offer an insight into humans' future. He compared the possible difficult situati...
climate change on certain kinds of economies.For example, it has been suggested that lessened rainfall brought an economic decline in lower Mesopotamia because this area was particularly vulnerable to lower rainfall amounts: but given that all of the crops were irrigated, the economy in fact would...
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Climate change refers to a statistically defined change in the average and/or variability of the climate system, this includes the atmosphere, the water cycle, the land surface, ice and the living components of Earth. The definition does not usually require the causes of change to be attributed...
The average temperature in Mongolia has risen 2.10 degrees Celsius since 1940, more than doubling the rise of average global temperatures, according to the UN Environment Programme. Kadiresan warned that it is important to remember that disasters and climate change impact people disproportionately, and...