Historical Droughts in Europe - Talk on 5 June 2023 in Nuremberg

Posted on So 02 April 2023 in aktuell • Tagged with klimageschichte, climate

On Monday, 5 June 2023, I will give a talk (In German) at the Naturhistorische Gesellschaft (NHG) in Nuremberg on "Historical Droughts in Europe".

In the drought summer of 2022, pictures of "hunger stones" in dried-up river basins went through the press. In many historical sources our ancestors documented contemporary …


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Climate and History: Cultures in the 22nd century AD - Talk in Nuremberg, 18 Oct 2017

Posted on Fr 13 Oktober 2017 in aktuell • Tagged with klima, klimageschichte, climate, vortrag

On Wednesday, 18 October 2017, I will give a presentation at the Society Society for Natural History (NHG) in Nuremberg on the Crisis of the civilisations in Antiquity around the 22nd century AD. At this time, the Old Kongdom and the Akkad Empire collapsed. Climatological data show a drought that …


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Climate and human history (OLL Jan-Mar 2012)

Posted on Do 19 Januar 2012 in blog • Tagged with geschichte, abendkurs, klima, menschheitsgeschichte, office-for-lifelong-learning, oll, klimageschichte, eiszeit, pleistozaen, steinzeit, jungsteinzeit, stadtstaaten, roemisches-reich, tang-dynastie, maya, mittelalterliches-optimum, mittelalterliche-warmzeit, kleine-eiszeit, el-nino, altes-reich, aegypten, archaeologie, neolithikum

The Open Studies course "Climate and Human History" at the Office for Lifelong Learning, the University of Edinburgh, looks at the impact of climate and climatic variations on certain periods of world history. It runs for 10 afternoons from 19 January 2012, each week on Thursdays at 2pm-4pm.

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Climate and human history (OLL Jan-Mar 2010)

Posted on So 28 Februar 2010 in blog • Tagged with geschichte, abendkurs, klima, menschheitsgeschichte, office-for-lifelong-learning, oll, klimageschichte, eiszeit, pleistozaen, steinzeit, jungsteinzeit, stadtstaaten, roemisches-reich, tang-dynastie, maya, mittelalterliches-optimum, mittelalterliche-warmzeit, kleine-eiszeit, el-nino, altes-reich, aegypten, archaeologie, neolithikum

The Open Studies course "Climate and Human History" at the Office for Lifelong Learning, the University of Edinburgh, looks at the impact of climate and climatic variations on certain periods of world history. It runs for 10 afternoons from 12 January 2010, each week on Tuesday at 2pm-4pm.

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Climate and human history (OLL Sep-Dec 2007)

Posted on Do 20 September 2007 in blog • Tagged with abendkurs, klima, menschheitsgeschichte, office-for-lifelong-learning, oll, klimageschichte, eiszeit, pleistozaen, neolithikim, steinzeit, jungsteinzeit, stadtstaaten, roemisches-reich, tang-dynastie, maya, mittelalterliches-optimum, mittelalterliche-warmzeit, kleine-eiszeit, el-nino, altes-reich, aegypten

My evening class at at the Office for Lifelong Learning, the University of Edinburgh, investigates the effects of climate change on some periods of world history. It runs for 10 evenings from 26 Sep. 2007.

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With Global Warming constantly in the media the science of climate change has …


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