Climate History Podcast
Episodes
Introducing The Climate Chronicles: A New Podcast on the History of Climate Change
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The final episode of the Climate History podcast is also the first episode of The Climate Chronicles, a new podcast created, produced, and narrated by...
A Millennium of Climate Change in Europe: From Medieval Warming to Today's Climate Crisis
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 22nd episode of Climate History, co-hosts Emma Moesswilde and Dagomar Degroot interview Christian Pfister, co-author (with Heinz Wanner) of a n...
Climate Histories and Futures in the Indian Ocean World
17 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 21st episode of Climate History, co-host Emma Moesswilde interviews Debjani Bhattacharyya, Associate Professor of History at Drexel University....
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson and the Record of Past Climate Change
16 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 20th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde interview Jim McClure, General Editor of the Papers of Thomas Jef...
Little Ice Age Lessons: How to Better Understand the Societal Impacts of Climate Change
24 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the 19th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde discuss their work on a major article in the journal Nature. The ...
Making Climate Policy: What's Working, and Where We Should Go Now
17 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 18th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde interview Vicki Arroyo, Executive Director of the Georgetown Clim...
Pandemics, Empires, and the Lessons of History
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 17th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde interview PhD candidate Emily Webster of the Department of Histor...
Pandemics and Climate Change: What History Tells Us About Today's Greatest Challenges
25 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 16th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde interview professor Timothy Newfield, a climate historian and his...
Teaching Across Disciplines: Reimagining University Education for Today's Multidisciplinary Problems
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 15th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde interview Kathryn de Luna, Provost's Distinguished Associate Prof...
Climate Change in the Ancient World: Volcanoes, Rebellions, and Lessons from the Distant Past
30 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 14th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde interview Joseph Manning, the William K. and Marilyn Milton Simps...
COVID and Climate Change: Reflections on the Pandemic, the Past, and the Future
31 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 13th and most unusual episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde share their reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic...
Tree Stories: What the Rings in Trees Reveal About Climate Change
04 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the 12th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde interview leading tree ring scientists Amy Hessl (West Virginia U...
Beyond Academia: Climate Change Storytelling and Activism in a Warming World
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the 11th episode of Climate History, co-hosts Dagomar Degroot and Emma Moesswilde interview Victoria Herrmann, president and managing director of t...
The Environmental History and Future of the Bering Strait
22 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the tenth episode of Climate History, our podcast, Emma Moesswilde and Dagomar Degroot interview Bathsheba Demuth, assistant professor of environme...
The Past, Present, and Future Significance of Climate Changes Over the Past 2,000 Years
26 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the ninth episode of Climate History, our podcast, we relaunch with a new co-host: Emma Moesswilde, PhD Student in Environmental History at Georget...
The Frigid Golden Age: How the Dutch Republic Thrived as Earth's Climate Changed
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the eighth episode of the Climate History Podcast, Georgetown PhD candidate Robynne Mellor interviews Professor Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown Univers...
Capitalism, Communism, and Indigenous Communities in a Changing Arctic
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the seventh episode of the Climate History Podcast, Professor Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) interviews Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown ...
Geoengineering, the History of Climate Science, and Airplane Crashes
08 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the sixth episode of the Climate History Podcast, Professor Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) interviews Professor James Fleming (Colby Colle...
The Little Ice Age and the Colonization of America; Climate Scholarship in the Age of Trump
31 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In the fifth episode of the Climate History Podcast, Professor Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) interviews Professor Sam White (Ohio State Univ...
Has Humanity Pushed Earth into a New Geological Epoch: The "Anthropocene?"
01 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the fourth episode of the Climate History Podcast, Professor Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) interviews Professor John McNeill (Georgetown ...
Archaeology in the Arctic: Reconstructing the Consequences of Climate Change in the Far North
17 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode of the Climate History Podcast, Dr. Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) interviews Dr. Thomas McGovern (CUNY) and Dr. George ...
The History of Climate Change with Professor Sam White
17 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In the second episode of the Climate History Podcast, Dr. Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) and Dr. Sam White (Ohio State University) discuss th...
Climate Change and Crisis: Lessons from the Past
23 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In the first episode of the Climate History Podcast, Dr. Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) interviews Dr. Geoffrey Parker (Ohio State University...