Thesis ID: CBB956832241

Strange and Terrible Wonders: Climate Change in the Early Modern World (2015)

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The study of climate and climatic change began during the Little Ice Age of the early modern world. Beginning in the sixteenth century, European clerics, scientists, and natural philosophers penned detailed observations of the era’s unusually cool and stormy weather. Scouring the historical record for evidence of similar phenomena in the past, early modern scholars concluded that the climate could change. By the eighteenth century, natural philosophers had identified at least five theories of climatic change, and many had adopted some variation of an anthropogenic explanation. The early modern observations described in this dissertation support the conclusion that cool temperatures and violent storms defined the Little Ice Age. This dissertation also demonstrates that modern notions of climate change are based upon 400 years of rich scholarship and spirited debate. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)

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Authors & Contributors
Jankovic, Vladimir
Fleming, James Rodger
Endfield, Georgina H.
Cittadella, Alex
McKittrick, Meredith
Neil Macdonald
Concepts
Climate and climatology
Climate change
Meteorology
Weather
Earth sciences
Environmental history
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
Early modern
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Scotland
Australia
North Sea
Jamaica (Caribbean)
England
United States
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