1. Outline: Early Modern Climate
The History of Climate as an interdisciplinary field
Who does it, how they do it, what kind of sources
How climate was changing in Early Modern Europe
Consequences

2. Part II: Climate and Mentalities
Effects of changing climate
Demographically
Culturally
Attempts by people to change the weather
(why? how?)

3. Thought Questions What human activities are affected by climate?
How might climatic changes affect history?
Can people do anything to affect climate?

4. Early estimates of average temperatures in Iceland:
A hypothesis for thinking about climate

5. Rhone glacier, 1750
Rhone glacier, 1950

8. Calendar from 1607 with weather predictions
detail of January, showing connection of
astrological signs to the body

9. Scapegoats: Witches making bad weather

10. More weather
witches

11. Global warming