Climate Catastrophe In The 17thC – Geoffrey Parker In Review

Warmth is our friend. Cold is not – not matter what the believers say.

NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT

By Paul Homewood

I have already reviewed Brian Fagan’s excellent history of the Littler Ice Age, but Don B alerts me to a book published last year by another historian, Geoffrey Parker, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century.

As the name suggests, this concentrates on the period when the Little Ice Age was at arguably its nadir, the 17thC, and describes how it affected not just Europe, but many other parts of the world.

Amazon’s blurb sets the scene:

Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides – the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. A global crisis extended from England to Japan, and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa. North and South America, too, suffered turbulence. The distinguished historian Geoffrey Parker examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered…

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