Historical Warm and Cold Events and Societal/Ecological Impacts

[provided by the author] The Chronologies are annual records of major Warm and Cold Events, as traced through recent observational data sets such as COADS, the SOI, William Quinn's documents searches for El Nino signatures, and historical records as presented in many different history texts, from Fernand Braudel's many texts, Barbara Tuchman, HH Lamb, James Burke, Ladurie; and extracts from the the Chronologies of Hellemans and Bunch, DD Runes, and James Trager.

Paleoclimatic data sets were selected from materials presented at AAAS and Pacific Climate Conference meetings, and recent articles such as those by Malcom Hughes, Scott Stine, Lonnie Thompson and Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Roger Y. Anderson; and reports at the PACLIM Conferences in the manner of of C.C. Ebbesmeyer, D.R. Cayan, D.R. McLain, F.H. Nichols, D.H. Peterson, K.T. Redmond. 1991. Forty environmental changes between 1968-1975 and 1977-1984.