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New Blogpost: Historians, Global Warming, and the Mapping of Humanity’s Future.
As a historical climatologist, I work in an avenue of environmental history that bridges historical and scientific methodology to reconstruct past weather, investigate societal vulnerability to...
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New Member Blog Article: “Real Time Climate Change: Farm Diaries and...
By Joshua MacFadyen. Originally posted on ActiveHistory.ca. It is 24 April, and although some Canadians have been mowing grass for weeks the spring plants on Prince Edward Island are only beginning to...
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New member blog article: The Historical Roots of Today’s Climate of Apathy.
By Dagomar Degroot. Originally posted on ActiveHistory.ca. In recent weeks widespread outrage over the publication of Kate Middleton’s topless photos has existed in strange parallel with a decidedly...
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Hurricane Sandy: a teachable moment for climate historians.
As this is published, so-called “Frankenstorm” hurricane Sandy is merging with a winter gale and bearing down on the American east coast. The deaths of sixty people in the Caribbean will likely...
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Reflections from the PAGES Open Science Meeting in India.
Dagomar Degroot Note: originally posted on The Otter, blog of the Network in Canadian History and Environment (NiCHE). On February 10th I embarked on the first leg of a long voyage from Toronto to...
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Climate and Crisis in the News
Given the recent publication of the IPCC AR5 WGII and some prominent coverage of Geoffrey Parker’s Global Crisis in the news, I wanted to publish a link to some recent discussion and commentary by my...
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Climate Variability and Human Population in Prehistoric Australia
<from H-Env> New podcast episode: Climate variability and population dynamics in prehistoric Australia by Jan Oosthoek The first people to settle in Australia, ancestors of present day...
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Heading North for the Arctic Winter: Understanding Glaciers in Svalbard
Text and photographs by Benoit S. Lecavalier. In early February, I had the opportunity to gather with fellow scientists in Longyearbyen, the most northerly permanent village in the world. The town is...
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