000303369 000__ 02903cam\a22003614a\45\0 000303369 001__ 303369 000303369 005__ 20210513112218.0 000303369 008__ 050928s2006\\\\nyuab\\\\\\\\\001\0\eng\\ 000303369 010__ $$a 2005054434 000303369 020__ $$a0684863529 000303369 0243_ $$a9780684863528 000303369 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm62090890 000303369 035__ $$a303369 000303369 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dBAKER$$dBUR$$dIXA$$dMNY$$dVP@$$dISE 000303369 042__ $$apcc 000303369 049__ $$aISEA 000303369 05000 $$aQC981.8.C5$$bL567 2006 000303369 08200 $$a551.609/01$$222 000303369 1001_ $$aLinden, Eugene. 000303369 24514 $$aThe winds of change :$$bclimate, weather, and the destruction of civilizations /$$cEugene Linden. 000303369 260__ $$aNew York :$$bSimon & Schuster,$$cc2006. 000303369 300__ $$ax, 302 p. :$$bill., map ;$$c25 cm. 000303369 500__ $$aIncludes index. 000303369 5050_ $$aA matter of emphasis -- The deep past : climate as creator -- Destroyer -- The first victim -- Weapons of mass destruction : disease, migration, conflict, and famine -- Empty promises of water : the collapse of the Mayans -- The Little Ice Age : five hundred years of climate chaos -- Climate comes into focus -- The gears of global climate -- Proxy wars I : ice -- Proxy wars II : mud -- The mystery of Tell Leilan -- Scorched Earth -- Is it Little Ice Age, or ages? -- El Niño : how it works -- El Niño meets empire -- A taste of things to come? -- The tides of public opinion -- Water moving through water -- Going forward -- Chronology : the accelerating pace of climate change and scientific discovery. 000303369 520__ $$aClimate has been humanity's constant, if moody, companion. At times benefactor or tormentor, climate nurtured the first stirrings of civilization and then repeatedly visited ruin on empires and peoples. Environmental journalist Linden reveals a recurring pattern in which civilizations become prosperous and complacent during good weather, only to collapse when climate changes--either through its direct effects, such as floods or drought, or indirect consequences, such as disease, blight, and civil disorder. The science of climate change is still young, but the evidence mounts that climate loomed over the fate of societies from arctic Greenland to the Fertile Crescent and from the lost cities of the Mayans in Central America to the rain forests of Central Africa. The tragedy of New Orleans is but the latest instance in which a region prepared for weather disasters experienced in the past finds itself helpless when nature ups the ante.--From publisher description. 000303369 650_0 $$aClimatic changes. 000303369 650_0 $$aClimate and civilization. 000303369 650_0 $$aWeather. 000303369 650_0 $$aWeather$$xSocial aspects. 000303369 85200 $$bgen$$hQC981.8.C5$$iL567$$i2006 000303369 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2005054434-d.html 000303369 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2005054434-s.html 000303369 85641 $$3Table of contents$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0641/2005054434-t.html 000303369 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:303369$$pGLOBAL_SET 000303369 980__ $$aBIB 000303369 980__ $$aBOOK 000303369 994__ $$aC0$$bISE