When Weather Changed the Course of History (LIVE from Seattle)
Overview
Weather and climate have been shaping human history for thousands of years. Blizzards, hurricanes, droughts, dust storms and floods: all of them have been turning points. Weather disasters seem so much bigger than we are, but they’re accurate barometers for telling us about what we value as human beings. This course will examine some of these major turning points (some of them based on controversial evidence!), from the ancient world, to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia, to the Dust Bowl, to Hurricane Katrina. How have weather disasters shaped human history, and what can this tell us about how we think about climate change today?
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Interesting and entertaining from both a historical view and a current understanding of our world with clear distinctions made between daily weather and the bigger view of climate.