The Great Warming

Video Title: (The Great Warming)
Video Duration: 50:41
From: DistinctiveVoicesBC
Category: Science and Technology
take a journey through the world of 1000 years ago, when the medieval warm period brought bountiful crops to europe and helped the norse make epic north atlantic journeys. recent climatological research paints a very different picture for other parts of the globe, which suffered under prolonged droughts. the climatic events of ten centuries ago have important lessons for our own warming world especially here in the american west. brian fagan, ph.d. emeritus professor of anthropology at the university of california, santa barbara, is widely regarded as the leading archaeological writer in the world. his numerous books include the obs of the nile. the adventure of archaeology, and four works on climate change, including the long summer, the little ice age, and the great warming.
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