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  WhatdotheriseandfalloftheRomanEmpire,theThirtyYears’WarandtheRenaissancehaveincommon?Forone,theywereallstarklyaffectedbyextremeweatherconditions.Indeed,ifwetakeafreshlookathumanhistoryinthelightofEarth’svolatileclimate,wecanexposehiddenparallels,drawsurprisingconclusionsandexplainbizarrehistoricalconundrums.  Thistwo-partercombinesnaturalsciencesandhistory,ajourneyfromtheBigBangtoIceland’svolcanoes–agrippingnarrativethatexploreslittle-knownconnectionsbetweentheEarth’sclimateandmajorhistoricalevents.  Aretheseextremesofweatherreallya21st-centuryphenomenon?Orhasclimatedeterminedthefateofhumanityeversinceamphibianstooktheirfirststepsonterrafirma?

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