The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations - Brian Fagan Audiobook
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A breakout bestseller on how the earth’s previous global warming phase reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara — a wide-ranging history with sobering lessons for our own time.
From the tenth to the fifteenth century the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide — a preview of today’s global warming. In some areas, including western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful harvests and population growth that led to cultural flowering. In the Arctic, Inuit and Norse sailors made cultural connections across thousands of miles as they traded precious iron goods. Polynesian sailors, riding new wind patterns, were able to settle the remotest islands on earth. But in many parts of the world, the warm centuries brought drought and famine. Elaborate societies in western and central America collapsed, and the vast building complexes of Chaco Canyon and the Mayan Yucatán were left empty. The history of the Great Warming of a half millennium ago suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives today — and our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the “silent elephant in the room.”
Anthropologist and historian Brian Fagan reveals how subtle changes in the environment during the earth’s previous global warming phase, from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries, reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara. The history of the Great Warming suggests that we may yet be underestimating the power of climate change to disrupt our lives today — and our vulnerability to drought, writes Fagan, is the “silent elephant in the room.”
Half a millennium ago, the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide — a preview of today’s global warming. In some areas, including Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful harvests and population growth that led to cultural flowering. In the Arctic, Inuit and Norse sailors made cultural connections across thousands of miles as they traded precious iron goods. Polynesian sailors, riding new wind patterns, were able to settle the remotest islands on earth. But in many parts of the world, the warm centuries brought drought and famine. Elaborate societies in western and central America collapsed, and the vast building complexes of Chaco Canyon and the Mayan Yucatan were left empty.
Fagan uses that natural history to show that the planet is due for its next warming phase, and explore the dramatic changes that may be in store for the human societies of today when it takes place.
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| 02 - A Time of Warming.mp3 19.03 MBs | |
| 03 - The Mantle of the Poor.mp3 26.09 MBs | |
| 04 - The Flail of God.mp3 20.98 MBs | |
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This post has 14 comments with rating of 4.4/5
November 27th, 2016
That’s awesome! thank you very much!!
November 27th, 2016
This should probably be categorized under “Fantasy”. Just another entry in the long line of people attempting to perpetrate the myth of global warming, or was it cooling? Or whatever they’re calling it that happens to fit the current 10 year trend in temperatures.
November 27th, 2016
You Call BS? I guess the vast majority of the scientific community is wrong. The only fantasy here is your magical thinking and delusion. And by the way, you’re supposed to rate the torrent as good or bad, not the book, not that you would know either way since you clearly didn’t take the time to listen to it first.
November 27th, 2016
Thanks I Call BS! Or perhaps “Humor”?
November 27th, 2016
First, this is about history, not about current propaganda. Our class saw a film about Russia’s plan for the Arctic region which showed us time lapse footage of the Arctic shelf over the past few years. So it seems there’s an agenda to deny it’s happening. Those in northern Canada see the results of melting for themselves. Just sayin’.
November 29th, 2016
Well if you look at the time period, how do climate change hysterics explain it? Man made change? Hardly. Natural change with variations of the axial tilt and solar variance? Much more plausible. But then plausible has never been a part of their agenda. Total control over all aspects of life is their true agenda. Do the due diligence people. Don’t give in to the hype.
December 4th, 2016
One doesn’t have to be a super-sophisticate to realize that more than one factor is at work. Your comment about due diligence is slightly confusing. Are you aware that it was revealed the Koch Bros. were hiring scientists to promote the carbon in the atmosphere as a hoax? Do you have any legitimate recommendations for our attempting to do more due diligence? I’ve spoken with environmental scientists, what else remains?
December 10th, 2016
Clearly “I call BS” is a dope, skimmed through the blurb (at best), saw the words ‘climate change’ on the cover and assumed a political agenda based on his own blinkered 21st century biases.
It’s about the 10th - 15th Centuries MORON.
February 6th, 2017
You guys are so quick to attack someone who steps out of line. ‘whole scientific community is wrong hurr durr?’ check out climategate emails where they discuss altering data to show worse climate warming trends than in actuality, or the recent climate science controversy with Dr. John Bates
He shows how NOAA changed data points in order to erase a ‘warming pause’ that occurred last century, and adjusted trends to coincide with a more scary looking climate prediction.
all this pushed out and covered up. the data used was not archived, and the software and computer suffered a systems failure, so no scientists can double check the results against their data points.
NOAA created this report right before and to influence the Paris Climate Agreements, where nations across the world agreed to dedicate billions of dollars through carbon taxes and regulations in order to combat the trends.
trends that were falsified to make a bleaker picture.
the point is that there is a cozy relationship between certain climate science organizations, politicians and the media. They have just given a scary scenario based on falsified data to justify policy changes.
But, dont believe me, just make sure you attack people who disagree with you with vitriol and stop people from stepping out of line. Doing their work for them!
May 1st, 2021
@climategate
So, you’re saying every country and scientific study the world over have got together secretly and made this up for their own agenda…nice story bro….
July 11th, 2022
follow the science Not your emotions
July 11th, 2022
science not feelings
December 9th, 2023
I deny its caused by Humans
May 28th, 2025
I see valid points on both sides of this debate. I wonder however if any of them reference the actual content of this book. I’m pretty sure it has nothing to do with the current global warming debate.
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