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A new PAGES working group launched today - PalEOclimate and the PeopLing of the Earth (PEOPLE 3000).
The paper, by Simon Flückiger et al., "Simulating crop yield losses in Switzerland for historical and present Tambora climate scenarios" model reductions in potential crop yields for 1816 and 1817 and address the question of what impact a similar climatic anomaly would have today.
Darrell Kaufman, PAGES SSC member and one of the authors of the recent Scientific Data paper, "A global multiproxy database for temp
Heli Huhtamaa and Samuli Helama connect cooling caused by volcanism to severe crop failures, impoverishment and hunger in 17th century Finland, in Journal of Historical Geography in June.
The database details the most comprehensive collection of information on global temperature change over the past one to two thousand years and gathers information on past temperature based on evidence from a number of distinct sources including tree-ring measurements, glacier ice, speleothems, co