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From 21 locations in mainland Australia, this paper has sourced (collections of) Aboriginal stories about coastal drowning that in most cases are considered likely to recall the | |||
effects of postglacial sea-level rise more than 7000 years ago.<ref name = "Nunn + Reid 2016">Patrick D. Nunn & Nicholas J. Reid (2016) Aboriginal Memories of Inundation of the Australian Coast Dating from More than 7000 Years Ago, Australian Geographer, 47:1, 11-47, DOI: 10.1080/00049182.2015.1077539</ref> | |||
== Deforestation == | == Deforestation == | ||
Revision as of 19:05, 13 January 2023
History
Sea Level Rise
From 21 locations in mainland Australia, this paper has sourced (collections of) Aboriginal stories about coastal drowning that in most cases are considered likely to recall the effects of postglacial sea-level rise more than 7000 years ago.[1]
Deforestation
In 1847, George Perkins Marsh delivered a now well-known speech in 1847 to the Agricultural Society of Rutland, Vermont, in which he claimed that
“Climate itself has in many instances been gradually changed and ameliorated or deteriorated by human action... the draining of swamps and the clearing of forests perceptibly effect the evaporation from the earth, and of course the mean quantity of moisture suspended in the air. The same causes modify the electrical condition of the atmosphere and the power of the surface to reflect, absorb and radiate the rays of the sun, and consequently influence the distribution of light and heat, and the force and direction of the winds” [2]