Climate and history: a critical review of historical climatology and climate change historiography

Carey, Mark

doi:10.1002/wcc.171

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Climate and history: a critical review of historical climatology and climate change historiography

Carey, Mark·2012·WIREs Climate Change

DOI 10.1002/wcc.171

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This paper provides a critical analysis of recent climate history (or historical climatology) scholarship. It identifies four key subfields in this historiography of climate change. First, it examines scholarship on climate reconstructions that use a variety of innovative historical sources to document past climatic conditions. Second, it analyzes scholarship on social impacts and responses to climate change. This literature is prolific with significant attention given to climatic variability and climatic or weather‐related disasters. Third, the paper discusses research on the uses and abuses of climate knowledge, such as innovations in meteorology and climatology as well as ways that Western climate knowledge helped justify colonialism and perpetuate racism. Fourth, the paper examines research on cultural constructions and perceptions of climate. This includes analysis of diverse climatic understandings and climate narratives that have varied across time and space. While the climate historiography is steadily expanding and constantly probing new areas, this paper contends that the field overall would benefit from a stronger emphasis on social history to examine race, class, and gender in climate history while also focusing on how social relations and power dynamics affect human–climate interactions. Additionally, it argues that the uncovering of more diverse climate meanings and narratives, partly through better social history, could both enrich the historiography and contribute to today's broader discussions about global climate change in the past and future. WIREs Clim Change 2012 doi: 10.1002/wcc.171 This article is categorized under: Climate, History, Society, Culture > Disciplinary Perspectives

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Climate change and Chinese history: a review of trends, topics, and methods
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Authors: Carey, M.
Affiliations: University of Oregon (US)
Corresponding author: Carey, Mark
ORCID: Carey, Mark
Venue: WIREs Climate Change
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2012-04-26
Volume: 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 233-249
ISSN: 1757-7780 (ISSN-L)
1757-7799
DOI: 10.1002/wcc.171
OpenAlex: W1784727984
Cited by: 125
References: 165
Citations by year: 2026: 9 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 10 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 8 · 2018: 30 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 8 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 14 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 1
FWCI: 51.92
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor (vor)
Locations: Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Climate Change (publishedVersion)
Funders: National Science Foundation
Topics: Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Diverse Historical and Scientific Studies
Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature
Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Historical and Environmental Studies
Keywords: climate history, historical climatology, climate reconstruction, social impacts of climate change, meteorological disasters, racism, climate change narratives, human-climate interactions

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