Climate Change in Human History by Lieberman, Benjamin -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction

Scientific and historical methods Time scales of climate change Collapse and resiliency Organization of the book

CHAPTER ONE A fragile start

Global cooling Forest habitats Woodlands The Great Rift Valley Savannas and hunter-gatherers Hunter-gatherers and dispersal Climate change and Homo sapiens Neanderthals and Homo sapiens The last glacial maximum and Homo sapiens Summary

CHAPTER TWO The rise of farming

After the last glacial maximum Younger Dryas Cultivation The spread of farming 8.2 k event The end of the Green Sahara Complex societies Conclusion

CHAPTER THREE The rise and fall of civilizations

4.2 k aridity Early human climate forcing? Late Bronze Age crisis Climate optimum: Rome Climate optimum: Han China Rome and Han China decline and collapse Climate and landscape in early medieval Europe Summary

CHAPTER FOUR Climate and civilizations of the Middle Ages

Climate of the Middle Ages North Atlantic Warmth in Europe Asian hydroclimate Drought and the Tang and Song dynasties Mongols and climate Southeast Asian expansion American floods and droughts Hydroclimate in South America Summary

CHAPTER FIVE The Little Ice Age

Climate of the Little Ice Age The Little Ice Age in the North Atlantic The Little Ice Age in Europe The Little Ice Age and East Asia Little Ice Age in the Tropics Seventeenth-century crisis Seventeenth-century crisis in China North American colonization in the Little Ice Age Cultural and social effects Adaptation Abrupt climate change during the Little Ice Age Summary

CHAPTER SIX Humans take over

An energy revolution Industrial revolution Carbon and climate Nineteenth-century droughts World Wars and Fordism Globalization Breaking constraints Toward dependency

CHAPTER SEVEN The future is now

The Arctic: tundra and boreal forests Mountainous regions Temperate biomes The Tropics Rising seas and coastlines Oceans Adaptation Climate conflict The rich and the poor

CHAPTER EIGHT Climate change controversies

Attacks on climate science Climate projections and uncertainties Challenges Climate agreements Energy choices Technical approaches and geoengineering Climate economics

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