
The Great Warming
Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations
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Tavia Gilbert
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Brian Fagan
A breakout best seller on how the earth's previous global warming phase reshaped human societies from the Arctic to the Sahara.
From the 10th to the 15th centuries, 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 Yucatn 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.
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Good world view of past climate
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good history...too long
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What the Last Warming Period Can Teach Us Today
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I Learned So Much Listening to this Book
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overall a good hear.
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Would you try another book from Brian Fagan and/or Tavia Gilbert?
No. He is much too much in love with Al GoreWhat could Brian Fagan have done to make this a more enjoyable book for you?
Forget Al Gore. Droughts have been the bane of civilizations forever and they will continue to be. Al Gore and his buddies cannot do anything about it.Only a few of the stories he told were news. He didn't even mention the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire and the rise of Islam. That would be much more interesting than how the Easter Islanders ate themselves out of existance.What do you think the narrator could have done better?
The narrator did fine.You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
I am interested in why history happens and there were a few tidbits in there.Any additional comments?
This guy needs to get out of his echo chamber and read his own material. Climate always changesA study of the obvious: Droughts kill people
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It's like listening to a 10th-grader who's asked to read an unfamiliar passage for a speech audition. I'm going to have to buy the book, because listening to this audiobook is just not working.
Good book but unpracticed, disjointed narration.
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