Soc Sci S1 Organizations/People

Question 1

The Swiss history that demonstrated that sources in the archives of society can be used to produced trustworthy climate reconstructions

Answer 1

Christian Pfister

Question 2

Environmental historian who led the push to form and name the field of HCS (history of climate and society)

Answer 2

Dagomar Degroot

Question 3

Wrote the book “Silent Spring”

Answer 3

Rachel Carson

Question 4

A body of experts on the Earth’s geological epochs and proposed that the Anthropocene should officially be recognized as a new geological time interval

Answer 4

The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG)

Question 5

Who rejected a proposal to formally name the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch

Answer 5

The International Union of Geological Sciences

Question 6

What groups were mentioned by the International Union of Geological Sciences that will continue to use the term “Anthropocene”

Answer 6

Earth, environmental scientists, social scientists, politicians, and economists

Question 7

French historians who did include climate in their narratives of global history

Answer 7

E. Le Roy Ladurie and Fernand Braudel

Question 8

Example of a scholar who argue that humans are reshaping the Earth’s climate system in a timespan that is shorter than natural processes

Answer 8

Dipesh Chakrabarty