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agriculture,
29
,
156
; Alps and,
156
,
164
; ameliorative effects on climate of,
215
; America and,
203

6
,
213

17
,
221

28
; barley,
61
,
102
,
113
,
181
; beans,
13
,
102
,
105
,
115
,
119
; buckwheat,
113
; Buffon and,
214
; Byron and,
68
; climate change and,
216
,
232
; coffee,
13
,
27
,
81
; corn,
13
,
61
,
176
,
180
,
203
,
205

6
; cotton,
13
,
205
,
221
; droughts and,
9
,
24
,
39
,
54
,
57
,
82

83
,
87
,
89

90
,
102
,
113
,
139

40
,
203
,
205

6
,
227

28
; Dustbowl and,
257n63
; famine and,
62
(
see also
famine
); Ireland and,
179

80
; Jefferson and,
203
,
205

6
,
213

17
,
221
,
225

28
; Little Ice Age and,
39
; Liverpool and,
62
; Monticello and,
203
,
206
,
217
,
221
,
223
,
224
; oats,
61
,
176
,
178
,
203
,
206
; pepper,
13
,
27
; potatoes,
61
,
176
,
180

81
,
192
,
194

95
; prices and,
179

80
(
see also
prices
); rice,
9

10
,
13

14
,
16

20
,
23

24
,
31
,
71
,
82
,
90
,
99
,
101

5
,
107

11
,
113
,
119
; rye,
203
,
222
; scientific progress in,
230
; Russia and,
10
,
63
,
198
; subsistence,
9
,
179
; sugar,
27
; Sumbawa and,
13
; Switzerland and,
62
,
64
; wheat,
99
,
102
,
105
,
110
,
113
,
115
,
119
,
164
,
176
,
203
,
205

6
,
214
,
221
,
222
,
226
; Williams and,
215
; Yunnan and,
99

103
,
107

8
,
117

20

AIDS,
93

algae,
89

Alps: Agassiz and,
161
,
167

68
; agriculture and,
156
,
164
; aquatic submersion and,
162
; avalanches and,
46
,
152
; Chamonix and,
152

56
; Charpentier and,
161

62
,
167

68
,
251n24
; erratics and,
166
; glaciers of,
129
,
150

70
; global warming and,
156
; Ice Age theory and,
155

60
,
162
,
166
,
168

69
; ice dams and,
158
,
159

60
,
162

64
,
166

67
;
jökuljlaups
and,
159
,
162
,
170
; Mount Le Pleureur and,
159
,
161
; Perraudin and,
160

62
,
164
,
166

68
; River Dranse and,
159

67
; Shelleys and,
45

46
,
151

59
,
169

70
,
206
; Swiss Society of Natural Sciences and,
157
,
162
,
166

67
; Tambora’s effects on,
45

66
,
150

51
,
155

56
,
159
,
162

63
,
165
,
168

70
; Val de Bagnes and,
159

68
,
170
; Venetz and,
157

58
,
160

68
,
170
; wheat and,
164
; storms of,
45

46

America: agriculture and,
203

6
,
213

17
,
221

28
; Annsville snowstorm and,
200

201
; Buffon’s theories on,
206

16
; climate change and,
206

17
,
227

28
; climate optimism and,
126

27
,
199

200
,
212
; climate pessimism and,
206
,
210

11
,
226

28
; Cumberland Pike and,
225
; drought and,
20

23
,
205

6
,
227

28
; Dustbowl of,
257n63
; “Eighteen-Hundred-and-Froze-to-Death” and,
9
,
128
,
200

206
,
217
; Era of Good Feelings and,
224
; Erie Canal and,
225
; famine and,
205
,
217
,
224

25
; Great Depression and,
225
; Great Lakes and,
203
; Hamiltonian economics and,
225
; immigration to,
214
,
218

19
,
224
; as inhospitable continent,
210
; Jefferson and,
200
,
203
,
205

7
,
211

28
; June 1816 weather in,
203
,
215

16
; meteorology and,
199
,
203
,
211
,
216

17
,
227
; Monticello and,
203
,
206
,
217
,
221
,
223
,
224
; panic of 1819 and,
216

26
; poverty and,
218
,
226
; as Promised Land,
217
; starvation and,
138
,
205
,
226
; storms and,
200

205
,
227
; Tambora’s effect on,
71
,
199

203
,
204
,
216

27
; War of Independence
and,
1
; wheat and,
203
,
205

6
,
214
,
221
,
222
,
226
; Year without a Summer and,
199

200
,
203
,
225

American Indians,
212
,
219

Andes,
34

animal mortality,
18
,
178
,
229

Annsville snowstorm,
200

201

Antarctica,
149

Anthropocene Period,
232

33
,
258n4

Antoinette, Marie,
35

Arabian Sea,
78

Arabs,
26

27
,
79
,
86

Arctic: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and,
137

38
,
140
,
249n25
; Baffin Bay and,
132
,
141
; Banks and,
121

22
,
127

28
,
135
,
142
; Barrow and,
122

34
,
141

51
; Bering Strait and,
128
; British politics and,
121
,
131
,
148
; Buchan and,
126
,
131
,
133
,
141
,
144
; Canada and,
40
,
125
,
133
,
140

41
,
144
,
147
; climate change and,
121

23
,
130

31
; Davis Strait and,
132
; Denmark and,
128

29
;
Frankenstein
and,
146

49
,
250n31
; Franklin and,
131

32
,
144

49
,
233
; glaciers and,
129
; global warming and,
122

31
,
133
,
146
,
150
,
258n5
; Holocene Period and,
233
; icebergs and,
127
,
130
,
151
; Lancaster Sound and,
132
,
141

42
,
144
; Little Ice Age and,
129
,
131
; Marine Diver and,
135

38
; melting ice and,
121
,
127
,
129

33
,
138
,
140
,
233
,
258n5
; Melville Bay and,
132
; northeast passage and,
128
; North Pole and,
48
,
134
,
137
,
140
,
147
,
168
; northwest passage and,
5
,
123
,
125
,
127

29
,
132

34
,
142

49
; Norway and,
129
,
149
; O’Reilly and,
131

34
; Parry and,
131

32
,
142

48
; Ross and,
126
,
131

33
,
141

42
,
148
,
233
; Royal Navy and,
121

34
,
141

51
,
233
; Royal Society and,
121
,
128
,
132
; Scoresby and,
125

28
,
131

38
,
258n5
; Tambora’s effect on,
121

23
,
132
,
135
,
138

41
,
146
,
149
; von Kotzebue and,
128
,
131
,
141
; whaling and,
125
,
127
,
135
; wind and,
140

“Arctic Expeditions, The” (Porden),
144

Arctic Oscillation,
50

51

ash: Arabian Sea coast studies and,
78
; blocked sun and,
3
,
5
,
22

23
,
66

69
; Crawfurd on,
15
; fluorine and,
24
,
48
; P. B. Shelley and,
33
; rain and,
12
,
16

20
,
22

25
,
30
,
48
,
52
; sulfate aerosols and,
3
,
37
,
38
,
48
,
78

79
,
81
,
121
,
123
,
141
,
230
; sulfur and,
5
,
6
,
43
,
48
,
52
,
79
; Sumbawa and,
12
,
15

25
,
30
; sunsets and,
2
,
97
;
zaman hujan au
(time of the ash rain) and,
24

25

Association for the Suppression of Mendicity,
191

92

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC),
137

38
,
140
,
249n25

Atlantic Ocean,
1

3
,
10
; Arctic Oscillation and,
50

51
; Arctic studies and,
127
,
130
,
132
,
135
,
137

38
,
140
,
146
; eastern U.S. and,
9
,
42
,
82
,
98
,
128
,
138
,
199

205
,
210
,
215

18
,
220
,
224
,
226
,
228
; icebergs and,
127
,
130
,
132
; Ireland and,
176
; New England seaboard and,
9
,
42
,
82
,
98
,
128
,
138
,
199
,
202

5
,
215

16
,
218
,
224
; transatlantic trade and,
64
,
138
,
210
,
217
,
222
,
224
,
226
,
228
,
237n5
; zones of,
15
,
71
,
79
,
116
,
226

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