The final episode of the Climate History podcast is also the first episode of The Climate Chronicles, a new podcast created, produced, and narrated by our host, Professor Dagomar Degroot of Georgetown University. 

The Climate Chronicles is a unique multimedia production that uses dramatic storytelling to explain how climate change shaped the history of humanity, from our evolution to the current climate crisis. 

It explores how and why climate changed in the past; how researchers in many fields identify human responses to past climate changes; how scientists first learned about the history of climate change; and what this history could tell us about the future. 

In our introductory episode, Professor Degroot uses one of the great adventure stories of the seventeenth century - the tale of fourteen desperate men deserted on two tiny Arctic islands - to identify key themes in the history of climate change. 

You can find The Climate Chronicles wherever you listen to podcasts, or you can visit TheClimateChronicles.com to view episode trailers, download audio files, and read illustrated transcripts with maps, graphs, infographics, and citations. 

Introducing The Climate Chronicles: A New Podcast on the History of Climate Change

Prof. John R. McNeill (Georgetown University, Washington) hat am 19.02.2016 in der Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung einen beeindruckenden Vortrag über die Umweltgeschichte der Industrialisierung gehalten. Genauso interessant war aber auch die von Prof. Franz-Josef Brüggemeier (Universität Freiburg) eingeleitete Diskussion der von John McNeill aufgeworfenen Fragen.

Gegenstand des Vortrags war nicht die Industrielle Revolution selbst, also das Zusammenspiel der technischen Entwicklungen bei der Garn- und Stofferzeugung, der Verbrauch von Kohle, der Eisen- und Stahloutput oder die Entwicklung des Eisenbahnwesens, sondern die Ökologie der Industriellen Revolution. Dieser Wechsel im Fokus der Betrachtung führte weg von England als dem Mutterland der Industriellen Revolution zu den weltweiten Folgen der Industrialisierung, die  ihren je spezifischen Ort hatten. Insofern vereint McNeills Zugriff Aspekte von Globalisierung und Regionalisierung.

Zum Beitrag: https://www.boell.de/de/2016/02/26/umwelt-geschichte-industrielle-revolution

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Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution: Work in (Slow) Progress

Climate History features interviews and discussions about the history of climate change. Conversations consider what the past can tell us about our present and future.  It is hosted by Dr. Dagomar Degroot, associate professor of environmental history at Georgetown University, and Emma Moesswilde, a PhD student in environmental and climate history at Georgetown.

Introducing The Climate Chronicles: A New Podcast on the History of Climate Change

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