My column in the latest issue of the Countryman is reprinted below.
I have been reading a fascinating book about climate change, one that should be of interest even to climate change sceptics. Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker is not another book about the threat of global warming, but an exhaustive account of the world’s last experience of catastrophic climate change, the little ice age of the seventeenth century.
Continue reading ‘Global Crisis: war, climate change and catastrophe in the 17th century’