Climate as a Scientific Paradigm—Early History of Climatology to 1800

Mauelshagen, Franz

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“…Their motivations included a growing awareness of solar variability; new efforts to monitor and exploit colonized landscapes; and, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a unique quest to legitimize empire by uncovering how atmospheric circulation connected otherwise isolated populations. (Coen 2018, Heymann and Achermann 2018, Mauelshagen 2018, Morgan 2018).…”

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The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

Degroot

Anchukaitis²,

Tierney³

et al. 2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently synthesized as the History of Climate and Society (HCS), is today undertaken primary by archaeologists, economists, geneticists, geographers, and paleoclimatologists. This review is the first to consider how all scholars in all of these disciplines approach HCS studies. It begins by explaining how climatic changes and anomalies are reconstructed by paleoclimatologists and historical climatologists. It then provides a broad overview of major changes and anomalies over the 300,000-year history of Homo sapiens, explaining both the causes and environmental consequences of these fluctuations. Next, it introduces the sources, methods, and models employed by scholars in major HCS disciplines. It continues by describing the debates, themes, and findings of HCS scholarship in its major disciplines, and then outlines the potential of transdisciplinary, “consilient” approaches to the field. It concludes by explaining how HCS scholars increasingly attempt to identify relationships between past climatic and human histories that can inform policy development and activism around anthropogenic global warming.

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The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

Degroot

Anchukaitis²,

Tierney³

et al. 2022

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…There are classical, mostly descriptive views on climates from the ancient Greeks to 20th century geography (e.g., Heymann, 2010;Hulme et al, 2009;Hulme, 2016;Heymann and Achermann, 2018; Version of doi:10.5194/gc-2018-11 that was rejected after one iteration of major revisions and submitted to EarthArXiv. 1 Mauelshagen, 2018;Fleming and Jankovic, 2011). There are the diverse, but generally reductionist views by the diverse communities of climate science.…”

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What Even Is Climate?

Bothe¹

2018

Preprint

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Although the concept of climate is easy to understand, there is not any uncontroversial definition of it. Most definitions fall back to the simple formulation that `climate is the statistics of weather'. Recent attempts at a definition called versions of this saying vague. Climate is policy-relevant, and discussions on climate and climate change benefit from clarity on the topic. Beyond the policy relevance a definition should also be valid for scientific purposes and for individual views. It has to account for a general concept and individual instances of climate. Here, I try to highlight why the flexibility and the immediacy of the colloquial definition fit the topic. This defence shifts the lack of a clear definition towards the term `weather' and the time-scales separating weather and climate.

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The Complexity Trap: Skepticism, Denialism and the Political Epistemology of Climate Science

Mauelshagen

Pfeiffer

2021

Strategies for Sustainability of the Earth System

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Climate as a Scientific Paradigm—Early History of Climatology to 1800

Cited by 4 publications

References 29 publications

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

The history of climate and society: a review of the influence of climate change on the human past

What Even Is Climate?

The Complexity Trap: Skepticism, Denialism and the Political Epistemology of Climate Science

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