Soc Sci S1 Organizations/People Flashcards

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

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Christian Pfister

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

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Dagomar Degroot

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3
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Wrote the book “Silent Spring”

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Rachel Carson

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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

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The Anthropocene Working Group (AWG)

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5
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Who rejected a proposal to formally name the Anthropocene as a new geological epoch

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The International Union of Geological Sciences

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

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

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

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E. Le Roy Ladurie and Fernand Braudel

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

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Dipesh Chakrabarty

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