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Showing posts with label paleoclimate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paleoclimate. Show all posts
10.21.2013

Climate, conflict, and social stability: what does the evidence say?

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The "sister paper" to our recent Science article on climate and conflict has come out in Climatic Change. This new article is a t...
3.21.2013

How stark is the reversal in global temperature trend?

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Last week I put a link to the recent Marcott et al. Science paper reconstructing Holocene temperatures in the weekend links . I've ...
3.14.2012

The most amazing graph I've seen all month: magnetization of lake sediments and the collapse of Chinese dynasties

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This is from the innocuously titled paper  Influence of the intertropical convergence zone on the East Asian monsoon  published in Nature ...
2.10.2012

Insights from past millennia into climatic impacts on human health and survival

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David Biello ( @dbiello ) points us to a great lit review by Anthony McMichael in PNAS on climate impacts throughout human history : C...
1.31.2012

Volcanoes and the Little Ice Age

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The Little Ice Age is the period in the middle of the last millennium when global temperatures seem to have been particularly low. It'...
11.21.2011

Orbital forcing, the green Sahara, human migration and the rise of civilization in the Nile Valley

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In a recent talk, Peter B. deMenocal  was showing results from this 2006 paper in Science. If you're interested in this stuff, I also re...
10.04.2011

Did the global climate cause dark ages and golden ages?

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Yesterday in PNAS: The causality analysis of climate change and large-scale human crisis David D. Zhang, Harry F. Lee, Cong Wang, Baoshe...
6.15.2011

Paleoclimate papers on climactic changes and civilization collapse

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My recent work led me to these three interesting paleo papers. All of these groups seem to come from chemistry-oriented paleoclimate backgro...