fareastwx21
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Clay County, Illinois on the banks for the Little Wabash
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Post by fareastwx21 on Jan 27, 2014 11:55:33 GMT -6
I have recently read The Long Summer and am in the process of reading The Little Ice Age, both by Brian Fagen. I would highly recommended both of these books for people that are interested in climate in general and its effects on civilization.
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fareastwx21
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Clay County, Illinois on the banks for the Little Wabash
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Post by fareastwx21 on Jan 27, 2014 17:53:28 GMT -6
Another book I read a few years ago was The Winds of Change. I can't remember the author I will look it up. It was also a very good read.
I have another on the Tambora eruption that I am going to start after the Little Ice Age.
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fareastwx21
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Post by fareastwx21 on Jan 28, 2014 9:58:29 GMT -6
Here are the liner notes for The Long Summer, by Brian Fagan.
Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer, Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years of warming, and shows how this climate change gave rise to civilization. A thousand-year chill led people in the Near East to take up the cultivation of plant foods; a catastrophic flood drove settlers to inhabit Europe; the drying of the Sahara forced its inhabitants to live along the banks of the Nile; and increased rainfall in East Africa provoked the bubonic plague. The Long Summer illuminates for the first time the centuries-long pattern of human adaptation to the demands and challenges of an ever-changing climate-challenges that are still with us today.
Really a very good for someone who is interested in climate and history.
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Post by guyfromhecker on Feb 2, 2014 14:28:30 GMT -6
Here are the liner notes for The Long Summer, by Brian Fagan.
Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer, Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years of warming, and shows how this climate change gave rise to civilization. A thousand-year chill led people in the Near East to take up the cultivation of plant foods; a catastrophic flood drove settlers to inhabit Europe; the drying of the Sahara forced its inhabitants to live along the banks of the Nile; and increased rainfall in East Africa provoked the bubonic plague. The Long Summer illuminates for the first time the centuries-long pattern of human adaptation to the demands and challenges of an ever-changing climate-challenges that are still with us today.
Really a very good for someone who is interested in climate and history.
Stop it. You cannot have that much variation with just solar variation. Blasphemy! |
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fareastwx21
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Clay County, Illinois on the banks for the Little Wabash
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Post by fareastwx21 on Feb 2, 2014 18:27:00 GMT -6
Here are the liner notes for The Long Summer, by Brian Fagan.
Humanity evolved in an Ice Age in which glaciers covered much of the world. But starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to climb. Civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, the era known as the Holocene-the long summer of the human species. In The Long Summer, Brian Fagan brings us the first detailed record of climate change during these 15,000 years of warming, and shows how this climate change gave rise to civilization. A thousand-year chill led people in the Near East to take up the cultivation of plant foods; a catastrophic flood drove settlers to inhabit Europe; the drying of the Sahara forced its inhabitants to live along the banks of the Nile; and increased rainfall in East Africa provoked the bubonic plague. The Long Summer illuminates for the first time the centuries-long pattern of human adaptation to the demands and challenges of an ever-changing climate-challenges that are still with us today.
Really a very good for someone who is interested in climate and history.
Stop it. You cannot have that much variation with just solar variation. Blasphemy! I know. Climate has been static since the beginning, wait no that's not right. |
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Post by Webster Groves on May 26, 2014 5:53:20 GMT -6
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Post by guyfromhecker on Nov 3, 2014 20:04:20 GMT -6
Hmmmmm, here is a nice tidbit for those who think we knew it all already.
Berkeley Lab scientists identify new driver behind Arctic warming
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