Table of Contents

1: Introducing Climate Change; 1: The British Isles Climate; 2: Explaining the Climate of the British Isles; 3: Describing the Surface Climate of the British Isles; 2: Reconstructing the Past; 4: The Climates of Past Ages; 5: Reconstructing Late-Glacial and Holocene Climates; 6: Documenting the Medieval Climate; 3: Monitoring the Present; 7: Observing and Measuring the Weather; 8: Classifying the Winds and Weather; 9: The Changing Temperature of ‘Central England'; 10: Precipitation Variability and Drought; 11: Wind; 12: The Air that we Breathe; 13: ‘Phew! What a Scorcher'; 4: Forecasting the Future; 14: Forecasting the British Isles Weather; 15: Global Warming and the British Isles; 16: Climate Beyond the Twenty-First Century

About the Author

Mike Hulme and Elaine Barrow are Senior Research Associates at the Climatic Reserach Unit, university of East Anglia.

Reviews

'...a useful source of practical classroom information and material. At £17.99 the volume is reasonably priced, and the reviewer recommends it without reservation to scientist, teacher and weather enthusiast alike.' - Geographical Journal, March 99