Sam White (1)
Autor(a) de A Cold Welcome: The Little Ice Age and Europe’s Encounter with North America
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Sam White is lead editor of the Palgrave Handbook to Climate History and cofounder of the Climate History Network. He is Associate Professor of History at the Ohio State University and has taught environmental history at Oberlin and Columbia. His first book explored the effects of severe cold and mostrar mais drought in the Middle East during the "Little Ice Age" of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. mostrar menos
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- 3
- Membros
- 107
- Popularidade
- #180,615
- Avaliação
- 4.2
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- 2
- ISBN
- 20
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- 2
*I don't personally know how tree rings are read and calculated beyond the physical counting of rings to tell years but am going off what the author states. The author states that tree ring data are proxy data (a proxy is not direct but something that stands in place of something else) that are imperfect for data analysis but then states his analysis and interpretation are true, accurate, and unquestionable facts about winter weather. He mentions only once that proxy data are imperfect but then goes on to take that data as if it were direct data.… (mais)