The History of Climate Change with Professor Sam White

11/17/15 • 42 min

In the second episode of the Climate History Podcast, Dr. Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) and Dr. Sam White (Ohio State University) discuss the origins and future of their Climate History Network; the prospects for climate history as a discipline; the possibilities and pitfalls of interdisciplinary research; the enduring value of the "Little Ice Age" idea, and more.

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Climate Change and Crisis: Lessons from the Past

In the first episode of the Climate History Podcast, Dr. Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) interviews Dr. Geoffrey Parker (Ohio State University) about human responses to climatic cooling in the seventeenth century.

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Archaeology in the Arctic: Reconstructing the Consequences of Climate Change in the Far North

In the third episode of the Climate History Podcast, Dr. Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) interviews Dr. Thomas McGovern (CUNY) and Dr. George Hambrecht (University of Maryland) about archaeology in the Arctic and Subarctic. Topics include: the perils of doing fieldwork in the Far North; the struggles of the Norse in Greenland and Iceland at the onset of the Little Ice Age; the threat of climate change to the archaeological record of northern peoples; and the possibilities (and challenges) of interdisciplinary approaches to Arctic research.