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History

Sea Level Rise

Based on oral traditions gathered at least 21 locations in mainland Australia, cross-referenced with geological data, Indigenous Knowledge about coastal drowning are 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]

Sources

  1. 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
  2. Ian Baucom and Matthew Omelsky: "Knowledge in the Age of Climate Change"