Introduction; Climate Vocabulary; 1. "Our House is on Fire" ; 2. Responsibility of the Historian as Public Intellectual; 3.Tipping Points ; 4. Great Climate Migration ; 5. Earth’s Past Climates ; 6. Climate Change and Human Evolution ; 7. Extreme Heat; 8. Four Billion Years of Climate History ; 9. Mass Extinctions; 10. "Clocking" Climate Change; 11. Diseases Carried by Mosquitoes or Hidden in the Ice ; 12. Climate Change Deniers and Minimizers; 13. A Short Cold Snap of about 500 Years ; 14. Power of Ice; 15. Climate Repercussions ; 16. Water Scarcity, Water’s Vengeance ; 17. Technology Debate; 18. Saving the Amazon Rainforest ; 19. Capitalism vs. the Climate; 20. Climate Activism (Where do we go from here?); Appendix 1: Annotated Bibliography; Appendix II. Resources for Teaching about Climate Change;
Biography
Alan J. Singer is a teacher educator at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, a former New York City high school teacher, and a life-long political activist starting with the anti-war and Civil Rights movements of the 1960s.
