Climate Since A.D.1500

To understand how climate may vary in the future, we need to understand how/why it has varied in the past. This book offers a new perspective on the "Little Ice Age" and the climate of the 20th century, presenting climate/meteorological records available for the last 500 years. First Published in 2004. Climate Since A.D. 1500 presents a unique perspective on the 'Little Ice Age' and the climate of the twentieth century. Leading scientists explore historical documents, dendroclimatic data and ice core records from all over the world, presenting an invaluable compilation for all those concerned with past climate and the risks of man-made climatic change in the future. This revised edition includes a new chapter summarizing the wealth of literature on climatic change over the past few years and a new and expanded index. Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC) 4.0 license.