In 2001 a panel representing virtually all the world's governments and climate scientists announced that they had reached a consensus: the world was warming at

This collection pulls together key documents from the scientific and political history of climate change, including congressional testimony, scientific papers,

The first global study by a historian to fully integrate the earth-system approach of the new climate science with the material history of humanity.

Introduction : intimations of the planetary -- The globe and the planet. Four theses; Conjoined histories; The planet : a humanist category -- The difficulty of

This intriguing volume provides a thorough examination of the historical roots of global climate change as a field of inquiry, from the Enlightenment to the lat