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The winds of change : climate, weather, and the destruction of civilizations / Eugene Linden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2007.Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster trade pbk. edDescription: 319 p. : ill., map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0684863537
  • 9780684863535
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 551.609 22
Partial contents:
A matter of emphasis -- The deep past : climate as creator -- Destroyer -- The first victim -- Weapons of mass destruction : disease, migration, conflict, and famine -- Empty promises of water : the collapse of the Mayans -- The Little Ice Age : five hundred years of climate chaos -- Climate comes into focus -- The gears of global climate -- Proxy wars I : ice -- Proxy wars II : mud -- The mystery of Tell Leilan -- Scorched Earth -- Is it Little Ice Age, or ages? -- El Niǫ : how it works -- El Niǫ meets empire -- A taste of things to come? -- The tides of public opinion -- Water moving through water -- Going forward -- Sea change : afterword to the paperback edition -- Chronology : the accelerating pace of climate change and scientific discovery
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Books Books Australian Emergency Management Library BOOK 551.609 LIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 900189459

Includes index.

A matter of emphasis -- The deep past : climate as creator -- Destroyer -- The first victim -- Weapons of mass destruction : disease, migration, conflict, and famine -- Empty promises of water : the collapse of the Mayans -- The Little Ice Age : five hundred years of climate chaos -- Climate comes into focus -- The gears of global climate -- Proxy wars I : ice -- Proxy wars II : mud -- The mystery of Tell Leilan -- Scorched Earth -- Is it Little Ice Age, or ages? -- El Niǫ : how it works -- El Niǫ meets empire -- A taste of things to come? -- The tides of public opinion -- Water moving through water -- Going forward -- Sea change : afterword to the paperback edition -- Chronology : the accelerating pace of climate change and scientific discovery

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