Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change

D Degroot, K Anchukaitis, M Bauch, J Burnham… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A large scholarship currently holds that before the onset of anthropogenic global warming,
natural climatic changes long provoked subsistence crises and, occasionally, civilizational …

Progress and uncertainties in global and hemispheric temperature reconstructions of the Common Era

KJ Anchukaitis, JE Smerdon - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Global and hemispheric temperature reconstructions provide an important means of placing
recent anthropogenic temperature trends in the context of preindustrial climate variations …

Coupling of Indo-Pacific climate variability over the last millennium

NJ Abram, NM Wright, B Ellis, BC Dixon, JB Wurtzel… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) affects climate and rainfall across the world, and
most severely in nations surrounding the Indian Ocean,,–. The frequency and intensity of …

Volcanic stratospheric sulfur injections and aerosol optical depth during the Holocene (past 11 500 years) from a bipolar ice-core array

M Sigl, M Toohey, JR McConnell… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
The injection of sulfur into the stratosphere by volcanic eruptions is the dominant driver of
natural climate variability on interannual to multidecadal timescales. Based on a set of …

Fennoscandian tree-ring anatomy shows a warmer modern than medieval climate

J Björklund, K Seftigen, M Stoffel, MV Fonti, S Kottlow… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Earth system models and various climate proxy sources indicate global warming is
unprecedented during at least the Common Era. However, tree-ring proxies often estimate …

[HTML][HTML] Prominent role of volcanism in Common Era climate variability and human history

U Büntgen, D Arseneault, É Boucher, OV Churakova… - …, 2020 - Elsevier
Climate reconstructions for the Common Era are compromised by the paucity of annually-
resolved and absolutely-dated proxy records prior to medieval times. Where reconstructions …

High sensitivity of summer temperatures to stratospheric sulfur loading from volcanoes in the Northern Hemisphere

A Burke, HM Innes, L Crick… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The 540s, 1450s, and 1600s represent three of the five coldest decades in the Common Era
(CE). In each of these cases, the cause of these cold pulses has been attributed to large …

Climate and society in European history

FC Ljungqvist, A Seim… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This article evaluates 165 studies from various disciplines, published between 2000 and
2019, which in different ways link past climate variability and change to human history in …

Antarctic climate variability on regional and continental scales over the last 2000 years

B Stenni, MAJ Curran, NJ Abram, A Orsi… - Climate of the …, 2017 - cp.copernicus.org
Climate trends in the Antarctic region remain poorly characterized, owing to the brevity and
scarcity of direct climate observations and the large magnitude of interannual to decadal …

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

D Degroot, KJ Anchukaitis, JE Tierney… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …