The winds of change : climate, weather, and the destruction of civilizations /
Climate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the first stirrings of civilization and then repeatedly visited ruin on empires and peoples. Environmental journalist Linden reveals a recurring pattern in which civilizations become pr...
| Основен автор: | Linden, Eugene. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
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New York :
Simon & Schuster,
c2006.
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Publisher description Sample text Table of contents only Book jacket |
Съдържание:
- A matter of emphasis
- The deep past : climate as creator
- Destroyer
- The first victim
- Weapons of mass destruction : disease, migration, conflict, and famine
- Empty promises of water : the collapse of the Mayans
- The Little Ice Age : five hundred years of climate chaos
- Climate comes into focus
- The gears of global climate
- Proxy wars I : ice
- Proxy wars II : mud
- The mystery of Tell Leilan
- Scorched Earth
- Is it Little Ice Age, or ages?
- El Niño : how it works
- El Niño meets empire
- A taste of things to come?
- The tides of public opinion
- Water moving through water
- Going forward
- Chronology : the accelerating pace of climate change and scientific discovery.