Sunburnt country: the history and future of climate change in Australia

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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 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 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 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