Sunburnt Country
The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia
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Publisher Description
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.
Customer Reviews
Sunburnt Country a seminal Australian book
Many years ago I read Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” that book changed the world, it helped to ban toxic pesticides, it made us think about the environment and the consequences of our actions.
“Sunburnt Country”is similar, it makes us think about the environment and the consequences of our actions. If we all read it, man made climate change would stop, greedy politicians would loose their jobs and coal, oil & gas would go the way of whale oil. All civilised countries would move on to sustainable economic development. This book could change the world for the better.