TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cunningham,Chris
TI  - Climate Change And The Cargo Cult: A Geographic Perspective
SN  - 9781528944687
AV  - QC981.8.C5 .C866 2019 
U1  - 551.6 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - Austin Macauley Publishers
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- About the Author -- Copyright Information -- Foreword -- Notes: -- Part I: Weather, Climate and Human Habitats -- Chapter One: Introducing the Problem -- Old-fashioned geographers and accumulation of information about weather -- Weather folklore -- People and climate change -- Changes in measurement of weather and climate -- The economic issues -- Notes: Chapter One -- Chapter Two: Weather -- Introduction: Radiant Energy -- The Earth among the planets 1 -- Composition of the atmosphere -- Energy and the sun -- The adiabatic effect -- The heat engine -- Circulation of the atmosphere -- Transfer of energy by convergence and convection -- Frontal systems -- Orographic uplift -- Magnitude and frequency -- The regularity of weather -- Notes: Chapter Two -- Chapter Three: Climate -- Introduction: Weather and Climate -- Why is there such a diversity of earth climates? -- Building an inventory of world climates -- Climate Summary -- Climate and biomass -- The realms of ice and snow: beyond the temperate membrane -- Impact of a warming global climate -- The statistics of climate change -- Climate and human settlement -- Notes: Chapter Three -- Part II: Climate Change and Its Impact -- Chapter Four: Energy and Climate -- Introduction -- Solar energy -- Energy from the Earth's interior -- Energy from human activities -- The contribution of anthropogenic energy to total energy received -- The comparison -- Human energy and climate change -- The cause of anthropogenic warming -- The outcome of human industrial emissions -- Notes: Chapter Four -- Chapter Five: Climate Change and Its Consequences -- Introduction: The Reality of Climate Change -- The warming planet -- The human record of changing climate -- Human contribution to global warming -- Measurable climate change from atmospheric phenomena; The story told by ice in temperate and tropical regions -- Ice in polar regions -- Global warming and climate change -- How three degrees of warming might affect the global climate system -- Carbon dioxide concentration and the carbon cycle -- Natural warming and cooling cycles -- The role of the deep ocean current -- The role of water vapour and dampers on climate change -- Capacity of plants to fix CO2 -- Notes: Chapter Five -- Chapter Six: The Potential Impact of Climate Change: A Case Study of Australia -- Introduction -- Current Australian climate zones and their industrial significance -- The Australian continent and climate change -- The gradual and evolutionary nature of climate change -- Summary -- Notes: Chapter Six -- Part III: Understanding the Underlying Problem -- Chapter Seven: Introducing the Cargo Cult -- Introduction: Climate Change and the Economics of Satiety -- The simple truth of economic growth -- Hegemony of the market -- Quality of life as against quantity of life -- Loss of consumer sovereignty -- Hegemony of the market by business and industry -- A summary -- Notes: Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight: Production, Wealth and Democracy -- Introduction: A Challenge to Democracy -- The nature of wealth -- Diminishing marginal utility -- Marketing -- Self-interest, selfishness and altruism -- Wants-based or needs-based society? -- 1On the other hand, we have also developed the intellectual capacity to, at least, partly understand the consequences of our actions and ways that we can avoid doing harm. We need to make a clear distinction between human needs and wants, and strive to develop a society which understands that difference. it is clear that the aspirations of most nations around the globe already incline towards the 'wants' pole of the 'needs'-'wants' spectrum. It would be pretentious to attempt to paint an accurat; Notes: Chapter Eight -- Part IV: Towards a Saner Society -- Chapter Nine: Goals and Habits for a Steady-State Economy -- Introduction: A Review of the Nature of the Disease -- The search for a cure: some goals -- Some habits for the post-growth society -- A summary -- Notes: Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten: Evolving Policy for the Steady-State Economy -- Introduction: Moving from Goals to Policy -- Industry and government responsibility -- Regulation and taxation -- The nature of a broad-based production tax -- Taming the joint-stock corporation -- Education for the steady-state economy -- A summary: energy and quality of life -- Notes: Chapter Ten -- Epilogue: A Sense of Perspective -- Back to the Future -- The real ogre -- Appendices -- Appendix A: Modified Köppen System of Climate Classification -- TABLES 3.1 (a) to (e) WORLD CLIMATES AND THEIR DESCRIPTORS IN THE MODIFIED KÖPPEN SYSTEM -- Appendix B: This Thing Called Utility -- A Modern Fable -- Bibliography
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