Climate, History and the Modern World - H. H. Lamb - Paperback

In this internationally acclaimed book, Hubert Lamb explores what we know about climate, how the past record of climate can be reconstructed, the causes of climatic variation, and its impact on human affairs now and in the historical and prehistorical past.This second edition incorporates important new material on recent advances in weather forecasting, global warming, the ozone layer, pollution and population growth. Providing a valuable introduction to the problems and results of the most recent research activity, this book extends our understanding of the interactions between climate and history and discusses implications for future climatic fluctuations and forecasting.Lamb, H. H. is the author of 'Climate, History and the Modern World - H. H. Lamb - Paperback' with ISBN 9780416334401 and ISBN 0416334407.