Climate History Network

A recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences also reported in Discovery News examines the impact of weather on plague outbreaks 1850-1964.  The authors find that wet weather increased outbreaks in arid regions but reduced them in the wetter parts of southern China.

I’ve added a number of new entries to the Zotero group bibliography, including recent publications ranging from Anatolian tree-rings to Ethiopian speleothems.  Please contact me at sam.white@oberlin.edu if you’d like to join the bibliographical project – thanks to those who have already signed up!

-SW

Many thanks on behalf of Sam and I to those who attended our climate history breakfast at the ASEH conference in Phoenix. We were delighted by the turnout and will be incorporating your suggestions as we continue to build the site in coming weeks and months. Stay tuned for a short writeup covering the meeting, which will be featured in our meetings and events section. If you’d like to get involved, please don’t hesitate to set up a wordpress account and send us a message with your email account.

The American Society for Environmental History 2011 Phoenix conference will host a climate history breakfast on the morning of Saturday, April 16 (details TBA).

The Bergen Summer Research School is offering a course entitled “Climate Change Narratives: Language use in the Circulation of Climate Knowledge.” For more, visit this link. Many thanks to Wilko Graf van Hardenberg for bringing this to our attention.