In the wake of a decade of crippling droughts, cyclones, floods and fires, and warnings that as a result of anthropogenic climate change such events will be more frequent and intense in the future, historical research into Australian weather and climate is growing. The focus of these studies ranges from the quotidian to the extreme and from the lay to the scientific, offering insights into the experience, measurement, interpretation and prediction of weather and climates since British colonisation. In doing so, they engage with familiar themes of Australian environmental history, such as adaptation, local knowledge, expertise, Western science, sustainability and economic development, as well as demonstrating emerging interests in anxiety, risk and resilience. Here I consider this recent historical research on Australia's climate and its variability, as well as the implications of anthropogenic climate change for the ways in which we undertake writing history. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
...MoreDescription On weather measurement and change since the British colonisation of Australia.
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Claire Fenby;
Don Garden;
Joëlle Gergis;
(2014)
"The Usual Weather in New South Wales Is Uncommonly Bright and Clear ... Equal to the Finest Summer Day in England": Flood and Drought in New South Wales, 1788-1815
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Don Garden;
(2014)
Extreme Weather and ENSO: Their Social and Cultural Ramifications in New Zealand and Australia, 1890s
(/isis/citation/CBB024719010/)
Book
Keller, Richard C.;
(2015)
Fatal Isolation: The Devastating Paris Heat Wave of 2003
(/isis/citation/CBB001422707/)
Thesis
Michael Sean Munger;
(2017)
Ten Years of Winter: The Cold Decade and Environmental Consciousness in the Early 19th Century
(/isis/citation/CBB567469942/)
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Gergis, Joëlle;
Garden, Don;
Fenby, Claire;
(2010)
The Influence of Climate on the First European Settlement of Australia: A Comparison of Weather Journals, Documentary Data and Palaeoclimate Records, 1788--1793
(/isis/citation/CBB001021189/)
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Garden, Donald S.;
(2009)
Droughts, Floods and Cyclones: El Niños That Shaped Our Colonial Past
(/isis/citation/CBB001033598/)
Book
Wolfgang Behringer;
(2019)
Tambora and the Year without a Summer: How a Volcano Plunged the World into Crisis
(/isis/citation/CBB421036085/)
Book
Barnes, Jay;
(2013)
North Carolina's Hurricane History: Fourth Edition, Updated with a Decade of New Storms from Isabel to Sandy
(/isis/citation/CBB001422337/)
Article
Thomas R. Anderson;
Ed Hawkins;
Philip D. Jones;
(2016)
CO2, the Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming: From the Pioneering Work of Arrhenius and Callendar to Today's Earth System Models
(/isis/citation/CBB797925933/)
Book
Gabriella Corona;
(2023)
L’Italia dell’Antropocene. Percorsi di storia ambientale tra XX e XXI secolo
(/isis/citation/CBB224244479/)
Article
Bruce Tranter;
Libby Lester;
(2015)
Climate Patriots? Concern Over Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues in Australia
(/isis/citation/CBB974055589/)
Chapter
Emily O'Gorman;
James Beattie;
Matthew Henry;
(2014)
Epilogue: Future Research Directions
(/isis/citation/CBB976528093/)
Chapter
Meg Parsons;
(2014)
Destabilizing Narrative of the "Triumph of the White Man over the Tropics": Scientific Knowledge and the Management of Race in Queensland, 1900-1940
(/isis/citation/CBB489182195/)
Chapter
Emily O'Gorman;
(2014)
"Soothsaying" or "Science?": H.D. Russell, Meteorology, and Environmental Knowledge of Rivers in Colonial Australia
(/isis/citation/CBB380777850/)
Chapter
Christian O'Brien;
(2014)
Imported Understandings: Calendars, Weather, and Climate in Tropical Australia, 1870s-1940s
(/isis/citation/CBB599664589/)
Chapter
Peter Holland;
Jim Williams;
(2014)
Pioneer Settlers Recognizing and Responding to the Climatic Challenges of Southern New Zealand
(/isis/citation/CBB170539181/)
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Matthew Henry;
(2014)
Australasian Airspace: Meteorology and the Practical Geopolitics of Australasian Airspace, 1935-1940
(/isis/citation/CBB133902063/)
Chapter
Andrew M. Lorrey;
Helen C. Bostock;
(2014)
Australasia: An Overview of Modern Climate and Paleoclimate During the Last Glacial Maximum
(/isis/citation/CBB058737334/)
Book
Daniel Rothenburg;
(2023)
Irrigation, Salinity, and Rural Communities in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin, 1945–2020
(/isis/citation/CBB559520395/)
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James Beattie;
(2014)
Science, Religion and Drought: Rainmaking Experiments and Rainmaking Prayers in North Otago, 1889-1911
(/isis/citation/CBB727955975/)
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