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We live in a world that is increasingly vulnerable to climatic shocks. Serious anxieties have been aroused by respected scientists warning of dire perils that could result from upsets of the climatic regime. In this internationally acclaimed book, Emeritus Professor Hubert Lamb examines 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 prehistoric past. This 2nd Edition includes a new preface and illustrations, together with extensive new material reviewing the wealth of literature to emerge in recent years, and offering a new understanding to the problems of future climatic fluctuations and forecasting.Lamb, H. H. is the author of 'Climate, History and the Modern World', published 1995 under ISBN 9780415127349 and ISBN 0415127343.
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