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

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.

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

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