Editor:
So, there were no “global warming problems" at the start of the industrial revolution according to Tom Duke?
Perhaps a little historical perspective would help.
In my library, I would start with The Third Horseman: A Story of Weather, War and the Famine History Forgot by William Rosen.
From there, the very recent A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America by Sam White and finally the superb Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World by Mike Davis.
In each case, global warming plays its role in shaping the history of Europe over the last 1,000 years and in the Late Victorian Holocausts – the fate of India as a colonial possession in the late 19th century.
Back to the drawing-board as they say.
Mary-Beth Laviolette,
Canmore
