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My column this week is on historical episodes of global warming following by long periods in which temperatures fell to ice age conditions. Since I could not cite all my sources in the column, I have made a list of some useful publications that aided me in my research. Following are a few.

Bradley, Raymond S., Malcolm K. Hughes, and Henry F. Diaz. 2003. Climate in Medieval Times. Science (October 17): 404-405.

Brázdil, Rudolf, Christian Pfister, Heinz Wanner, Hans von Storch, and Jürg Luterbacher. 2005. Historical Climatology in Europe—The State of the Art. Climatic Change (June): 363-430.

Briffa, Keith R., and Timothy J. Osborn. 2002. Blowing Hot and Cold. Science (March 22): 2227-28.

Broecker, Wallace S. 2001. Was the Medieval Warm Period Global? Science (February 22): 1497-99.

Brooks, C.E.P. 1949. Climate Through the Ages, 2nd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.

Crowley, Thomas J. 2000. Causes of Climate Change Over the Past 1000 Years. Science (July 14): 270-77.

Fagan, Brian. 1999. Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niño and the Fate of Civilizations. New York: Basic Books.

Fagan, Brian. 2000. The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300-1850. New York: Basic Books.

Fagan, Brian. 2004. The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization. New York: Basic Books.

Imbrie, John, and Katherine Palmer Imbrie. 1979. Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Jones, P.D., T.J. Osborn, and K.R. Briffa. 2001. The Evolution of Climate Over the Last Millennium. Science (April 27): 662-67.

Lamb, H.H. 1995. Climate, History and the Modern World, 2nd ed. London: Routledge.

Linden, Eugene. 2006. The Winds of Change: Climate, Weather, and the Destruction of Civilizations. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Macdougal, Doug. 2004. Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Mann, Michael E., Raymond S. Bradley, and Malcolm S. Hughes. 1998. Global-Scale Temperature Patterns and Climate Forcing Over the Past Six Centuries. Nature (April 23): 779-87.

Neumann, J. 1985. Climate Change as a Topic in the Classical Greek and Roman Literature. Climatic Change (December): 441-54.

Soon, Willie, Sallie Baliunas, Craig Idso, Sherwood Idso, and David R. Legates. 2003. Reconstructing Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Past 1000 Years: A Reappraisal. Energy and Environment (May): 233-96.

Storch, Hans von, and Nico Stehr. 2000. Climate Change in Perspective. Nature (June 8): 615.

addendum:

Canada's National Post newspaper has been running an excellent series for the last several months on global warming sceptics.  It can be found here:

http://www.eprf.ca/eprf/index.cfm?DSP=news_perform

Archaeologist Dorothy King comments on my column here:

http://phdiva.blogspot.com/2007/06/plato-on-climate-change.html

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