Global Climate Theory and Desiccation

Deep in the Pacific Northwest Forest. Image: Roger Kirby.

Centre for Environmental History Research Fellow, Dr Gregory Barton, has launched a research project into the longer cultural history of climate perceptions and policy. Global climate theory of our own time has a significant precedent in ‘desiccation theory’ of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: both involve a central role played by forests, changes in atmospheric conditions, and above all, the effects of human action on nature.

Researcher: Gregory Barton.