| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Part I: Colonial Calamities; 1: The Start of a Rocky Relationship; 2: Unearthing Australia's Climate History; 3: Life in Sodden Isolation; 4: Australia's Climatic Tug of War; 5: Twin Blows; 6: Rescued from the Rooftops; 7: Scarcely a Passing Shower; 8: 'The Changes Are Truly Astonishing'; Part II: Weather Watchers; 9: What Does 'on Record' Actually Mean?; 10: The Weatherman; 11: Australia's Early Climate Records; 12: Frost and Fire; 13: Bursting Bubbles of Optimism; 14: Dust and Desolation; 15: Gumboot Weather; 16: Wisdom of the Elders |
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Part III: Time Travellers17: Sentinels of Deep Time; 18: Old-growth Records; 19: Tales from the Tropics; 20: Frozen in Time; 21: Ebbs and Flows; 22: Piecing Together the Climate Jigsaw; 23: Taking the Temperature of the Southern Hemisphere; 24: The Saga of the Millennium; 25: Welcome to the Anthropocene; Part IV: History Repeating?; 26: What about the Ice Ages?; 27: Natural Variability Versus Human Influence; 28: Life in a Shifting Climate; 29: Human Fingerprints on Our Climate; 30: Up in Flames; 31: Vanishing Snow; 32: Flooding Rains; 33: Girt by Rising Seas; Part V: The Age of Consequences |
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34: The 'New Normal'35: Redrawing Our Maps; 36: Silent Killers; 37: The Living Dead; 38: A Symbolic Start; 39: Our Political Hot Potato; 40: The Clean Energy Revolution; 41: We Are All in This Together; Acknowledgements; References; Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Climatic changes -- Australia.
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Climatic changes. |
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Australia. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sunburnt country. First. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Publishing, 2018 9780522871548 (OCoLC)1006879935 |
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Print version: Gergis, Joelle. Sunburnt country. Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Publishing, 2018 9780522871548 (OCoLC)1006879935 |
| ISBN |
9780522871555 (electronic book) |
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0522871550 (electronic book) |
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9780522871548 |
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0522871542 |
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