Lead author Dr Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, a medieval historian and palaeoclimatologist at Stockholm University, explains to Carbon Brief: (carbonbrief.org)
«The interval when Columbus is exploring the New World is this interval where we're seeing increased hurricane activity along the eastern seaboard of the U.S.,» Jeffrey Donnelly, a Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution palaeoclimatologist, said. (wxshift.com)
So far - reaching is the impact of modern humans that esteemed palaeoclimatologist Wally Broecker has suggested that we have not entered a new geological epoch, a relatively minor event on the geologic time scale, but a new era — the Anthropozoic — on a par in Earth history with the development of multicellular life. (clivehamilton.com)