Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia

What does climate change in Australia really look like?"What was Australia’s climate like before official weather records began? How do scientists use tree-rings, ice cores and tropical corals to retrace the past? What do Indigenous seasonal calendars reveal? And what do settler diary entries about rainfall, droughts, bushfires and snowfalls tell us about natural climate cycles?

Sunburnt Country pieces together Australia’s climate history for the first time. It uncovers a continent long vulnerable to climate extremes and variability. It gives an unparalleled perspective on how human activities have altered patterns that have been with us for millions of years, and what climate change looks like in our own backyard.

Sunburnt Country highlights the impact of a warming planet on Australian lifestyles and ecosystems and the power we all have to shape future life on Earth."

• Australia: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century (World Social Change)
• Tracks: One Woman's Journey Across 1,700 Miles of Australian Outback
• In a Sunburned Country
• Quarterly Essay 70 Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next
• The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
• Deep Time Dreaming: Uncovering Ancient Australia