1st Edition

Climate: Present, Past and Future Volume 2: Climatic History and the Future

By Hubert Lamb Copyright 1977
888 Pages
by Routledge

888 Pages
by Routledge

870 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1977, the second volume of Climate: Present, Past and Future covers parts III and IV of Professor Hubert Lamb’s seminal and pioneering study of climatology. Part III provides a survey of evidence of types of climates over the last million years, and of methods of dating that evidence. Through the earlier stages of the Earth’s development the book traces what is known of the... Read more

12. Man’s Awareness of Climatic Changes  Part 3: Climatic History  13. Evidence of Past Weather and Climate  14. Climate and the Long History of the Earth  15. The Quartenary Ice Ages and Interglacial Periods  16. Postglacial Times  17. Climate in Historical Times  18. Climate Since Instrument Records Began  Part 4: The Future  19. Man-Made Climatic Changes  20. Approaches to the Problem of Forecasting

Biography

H. H. Lamb

‘Professor Lamb has indeed served us well, in a complex field of study of the utmost significance to mankind’ – The Times Higher Education Supplement

‘Destined to become one of the classics of climatology’ – Geographical Magazine

‘Professor Lamb is to be congratulated on producing such an informative book, one which is almost certainly destined to become a classic synthesis of our present understanding of physical and dynamical climatology.’ – Times Literary Supplement