Historic Impacts of Climate Change

View In: Historic Impacts of Climate ChangeWhen 4 volcanoes erupted during the Ptolemaic era (305–30 BCE), it lowered farming productivity in ancient Egypt, possibly causing intermittent political and social unrest in the form of (sometimes widespread) revolts against the Ptolemaic elites. A bit technical, but important information

View In: Historic Impacts of Climate Change20/12/2022 - An international team of Earth scientists has discovered that the atmosphere contained far less CO2 than previously thought when forests emerged on our planet. The study published in Nature Communications alters a 30-year-old paradigm with important implications for understanding how land plants affect the climate.

View In: Historic Impacts of Climate ChangeThe year 536 ushered in the coldest decade in thousands of years and started a century of economic devastation.

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View In: Historic Impacts of Climate ChangeResearchers link an eruption in the Aleutian Islands to Nile flood failures during Cleopatra’s reign. The post The volcanic eruption in Alaska that rocked ancient Egypt appeared first on Yale Climate Connections.

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View In: Historic Impacts of Climate ChangeAs scientists rapidly improve their ability to decipher past climate upheaval through ice cores and other “proxies,” historians are re-examining previous political and social turmoil and linking it to volcanic eruptions, prolonged droughts, and other disturbances in the natural world.Read more on E36...