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Teaching climate history : there is no Planet B /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Singer, Alan J. (Author)
Corporate Author: Taylor & Francis
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Subjects:
Climatology > History > Study and teaching.
Climatic changes > History > Study and teaching.
Nature > Effect of human beings on > Study and teaching.
Human ecology > Study and teaching.
Climat > Changements > Histoire > EÌ?tude et enseignement.
Homme > Influence sur la nature > EÌ?tude et enseignement.
EÌ?cologie humaine > EÌ?tude et enseignement.
EDUCATION / General
Climatic changes > Study and teaching.
Climatology > Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Climate vocabulary
  • Our house is on fire
  • Responsibility of the historian as public intellectual
  • Tipping points
  • Great climate migration
  • Earth's past climates
  • Climate change and human evolution
  • Extreme heat
  • Four billion years of climate history
  • Mass extinctions
  • "Clocking" climate change
  • Diseases carried by mosquitoes or hidden in the ice
  • Climate change deniers and minimizers
  • A short cold snap of about 500 years
  • Power of ice
  • Climate repercussions
  • Water scarcity, water's vengeance
  • Technology debate
  • Saving the Amazon rainforest
  • Capitalism vs. the climate
  • Climate activism (where do we go from here?)
  • Appendix 1. Annotated "bibliography"
  • Appendix II. Resources for teaching about climate change.