Weather : an illustrated history : from cloud atlases to climate change

Weather An illustrated history : from cloud atlases to climate change

Andrew Revkin

Book - 2018

Andrew Revkin, who is the senior climate reporter at ProPublica after a prize-winning 21-year stint at The New York Times, presents an intriguing illustrated history of humanity's evolving relationship with Earth's dynamic climate system and the wondrous weather it generates.--Amazon.

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Subjects
Weather > History > Pictorial works.
Meteorology > History > Pictorial works.
Published
New York : Sterling [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Andrew Revkin (author)
Other Authors
Lisa Mechaley (author)
Physical Description
xi, 212 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-208) and index.
ISBN
9781454921400
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • 4.567 Billion BCE Earth Gets an Atmosphere
  • 4.3 Billion BCE Water World
  • 2.9 Billion BCE Pink Skies and Ice
  • 2.7 Billion BCE First Fossil Traces of Raindrops
  • 2.4 Billion-423 Million BCE The Icy Path to Fire
  • 252 Million BCE Lethal Heat and the "Great Dying"
  • 66 Million BCE Dinosaurs' Demise, Mammals Rise
  • 56 Million BCE The Feverish Eocene
  • 34 Million BCE A Southern Ocean Chills Things
  • 10 Million BCE The Rise of Tibet and the Asian Monsoon
  • 100,000 BCE Climate Pulse Propels Populations
  • 15,000 BCE A Super Drought
  • 9,700 BCE The Fertile Crescent
  • 5,300 BCE North Africa Dries and the Pharaohs Rise
  • 5,000 BCE Agriculture Warms the Climate
  • 350 BCE Aristotle's Meteorologies
  • 300 BCE China Shifts from Mythology to Meteorology
  • 1088 ce Shen Kuo Writes of Climate Change
  • 1100 Medieval Warmth to a Little Ice Age
  • 1571 The Age of Sail
  • 1603 The Invention of Temperature
  • 1637 Deciphering the Rainbow
  • 1644 The Weight of the Atmosphere
  • 1645 A Spotless Sun
  • 1714 Fahrenheit Standardizes Degrees
  • 1721 Four Seasons on Four Strings
  • 1735 Mapping the Winds
  • 1752 Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod
  • 1755 Franklin Chases a Whirlwind
  • 1783 First Weather Balloon Flight
  • 1792 The Farmer's Almanac
  • 1802 Luke Howard Names the Clauds
  • 1802 Humboldt Maps a Connected Planet
  • 1806 Beaufort Classifies the Winds
  • 1814 London's Last Frost Fair
  • 1816 An Eruption, Famine, and Monsters
  • 1818 Watermelon Snow
  • 1830 An Umbrella for Everyone
  • 1840 Ice Ages Revealed
  • 1841 Peat Bog History
  • 1845 Cold Dooms an Arctic Explorer
  • 1856 Scientists Discover Greenhouse Gases
  • 1859 Space Weather Comes to Earth
  • 1861 First Weather Forecasts
  • 1862 California's Great Deluge
  • 1870 Meteorology Gets Useful
  • 1871 Midwestern Firestorms
  • 1880 "Snowflake" Bentley
  • 1882 Coordinating Arctic Science
  • 1884 First Photographs of Tornadoes
  • 1886 Groundhog Day
  • 1887 Putting Wind to Work
  • 1888 The Great White Hurricane
  • 1888 Deadliest Hailstorm
  • 1896 First International Cloud Atlas
  • 1896 Coal, CO 2 , and the Climate
  • 1900 A Mighty Storm
  • 1902 "Manufactured Weather"
  • 1903 The Windshield Wiper
  • 1903 A Dry Discovery
  • 1911 The Great Blue Norther
  • 1912 Orbits and Ice Ages
  • 1922 A "Forecast Factory"
  • 1931 "China's Sorrow"
  • 1934 The Fastest Wind Gust
  • 1935 The Dust Bowl
  • 1941 Russia's "General Winter"
  • 1943 Hurricane Hunters
  • 1944 The Jet Stream Becomes a Weapon
  • 1946 Rainmakers
  • 1950 The First Computerized Forecast
  • 1950 Tornado Warnings Advance
  • 1952 London's Great Smog
  • 1953 North Sea Flood
  • 1958 The Rising Curve of CO 2
  • 1960 Watching Weather from Orbit
  • 1960 Chaos and Climate
  • 1965 A President's Climate Warning
  • 1967 Climate Models Come of Age
  • 1973 Storm Chasing Gets Scientific
  • 1975 Dangerous Downbursts Revealed
  • 1978 Sea Level Threat in Antarctic Ice
  • 1983 The Coldest Place on Earth
  • 1983 Nuclear Winter
  • 1986 Forecasting El Niño
  • 1988 Global Warming Becomes News
  • 1989 Proof of Electrical "Sprites"
  • 1993 Climate Clues in Ice and Mud
  • 2006 The Human Factor in Weather Disasters
  • 2006 Climate by Design?
  • 2006 Long-Distance Dust
  • 2007 Tracking the Oceans' Climate Role
  • 2012 Science Probes the Political Climate
  • 2012 Settling a Hot Debate
  • 2014 The Polar Vortex
  • 2015 Climate Diplomacy from Rio through Paris
  • 2016 Arctic Sea Ice Retreat
  • 2016 Extreme Lightning
  • 2017 Reefs Feel the Heat
  • 102,018 ce An End to Ice Ages?
  • Contributors
  • References
  • Image Credits
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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