Sunburnt country : the history and future of climate change in Australia

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Sunburnt country : the history and future of climate change in Australia

Title remainder

the history and future of climate change in Australia

Statement of responsibility

Joëlle Gergis

Title variation

History and future of climate change in Australia

Creator

• Gergis, Joëlle
• trueGergis, Joelle

Author

• Gergis, Joëlle

Subject

• trueAustralian
• Australian literature
• Climate change -- Australia -- History
• trueClimate change -- Environmental aspects
• Climatic changes -- Australia
• Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
• trueClimatology
• trueEarth sciences
• trueGlobal environmental change
• trueGlobal warming -- Australia
• Human beings -- Effect of environment on
• Australia -- Climate
• Nature -- Effects of human beings on
• trueNature Writing -- Environmental Issues
• trueScience Writing -- General
• Weather -- Australia
• Weather -- Australia -- History
• trueWeather -- Environmental aspects
• Weather -- Environmental aspects -- Australia
• Meteorology -- Australia
• Australia -- Climate | History
• trueAustralia -- Environmental conditions

Language

eng

Summary

What was Australia's climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about natural climate cycles? Sunburnt Country pieces together Australia's climate history for the first time. It uncovers a continent long vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It gives an unparalleled perspective on how human activities have altered patterns that have been with us for millions of years, and what climate change looks like in our own backyard. Sunburnt Country highlights the impact of a warming planet on Australian lifestyles and ecosystems and the power we all have to shape future life on Earth

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

363.738

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• facsimiles

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography