Kulturgeschichte des Klimas

Wolfgang Behringer discovered the attraction of climate history in his path-breaking investigation on witch-hunting and weather magic during the Little Ice Age (1995). His recent publication embraces the entire history of the earth, climate and mankind, from the Big Bang to the publication of the latest IPCC report in 2007. He focuses on Central and Western Europe, where he is most familiar with the literature, with side-glimpses of the situations in the Mayan kingdoms, Japan and China. As his history unfolds, he distinguishes between warm and cold periods and highlights mankind's ability to adapt to those changes. Climate is seen as the primary agent for change, whereby Behringer rates warm periods positively (such as ‘Europe's happy Bronze-Age’) and cold periods negatively. This dual mode of presentation is well adapted to those long periods of the earth's history for which the available evidence of human motivation is limited. Behringer sticks to

Archaeology · China · Climate change · Geography · MAGIC (telescope · Witch · Ecology · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Geology · History · Oceanography