The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850
The Little Ice Age : How Climate Made History 1300-1850 – Review
This book illustrates the climatic hardships experienced by the Western world during the period 1300 to 1850, known informally as The Little Ice Age. Fagan, an experienced author of books on archeology and history, does a excellent activity of conveying the past effects of climate shifts on societies. He writes that "climate change is the largely ignored player on the chronological stage." He extrapolates further, warning us of the potential for major climatic changes in the future usually caused at least in part by individual activity. He is less successful in regularly drawing linkages between the scientific findings of climatology and historical events, leaving those connections involved very than stated. More kind of the science would have been helpful, as well as an acknowledgement that the level of logical certainty still is under debate.