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 History of Meteorology 3 (2006) 65 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Book Launch 
 

 

Climate History:  

Historical Perspectives and the Current Debate 

 

Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 

 

December 11, 2006 

 

Commentators 

James Rodger Fleming, Colby College and Wilson Center 

Roger D. Launius, National Air and Space Museum 

Michael MacCracken, The Climate Institute 

 

Moderator 

Kent Hughes, Wilson Center 

 

Link to the streaming video from the Wilson Center: 

 

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.event&event_id=209021 

 

Links to the books discussed: 

 

The Callendar Effect http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/books/bookdesc.html#CLDR 

is the untold story of the remarkable individual who established the carbon dioxide theory of 

climate change.  Guy Stewart Callendar discovered that global warming could be brought about 

by increases in the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide due to human activities, 

primarily through burning fossil fuels.  He did this in 1938! 

 

Intimate Universality http://www.shpusa.com/books/climate.html edited by Fleming, Vlad 

Jankovic, and Deborah R. Coen, contains eight essays on weather and climate from the 

Enlightenment to 2006.  The atmosphere and humans interact on all scales, from lungs and 

laboratory flasks to the Austrian Alps and Latin American airways; from an overly hot (or cold) 

day to the science and politics of climate change; from gusty winds to the general planetary 

circulation.