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. In: Proc. Seventh Annual Pacific Climate Conference
(PACLIM) Workshop, April 1990. Calif. Dept. of Water Resources.
Interagency Ecological Studies Program Tech. Rep. 26, 115-126. 26,
115-126.

Societal impacts information for the recent half century or so were
extracted from FAO Fisheries records; from epidemiological surveys by
Dr, Paul Epstein; and an array of published volumes arising from work
by M.H. Glantz, of the Environmental and Societal Impacts Group of
NCAR, and H. Diaz, M. Chinnery, and others at NOAA's NGDC; and
staff at CIRES at U. Colorado, all of Boulder, Colorado. There are
data everywhere, but one needs to collate them, and provide the links
for the pictures to clarify. Its All About Time and Place, explores
these links.