Episode 1, Introduction: A Shore on Svalbard

Human-caused global warming has only heated the planet for about a century. But climate change has always affected humanity. 

 

Natural climate changes were different from today’s global warming, but they helped shape humanity's history. The Climate Chronicles tells the remarkable story of how climate change influenced our past. 

 

Written, produced, and narrated by Professor Dagomar Degroot, one of the world’s leading historians of climate change, The Climate Chronicles explains what the history could reveal about the future of global warming. 

In our introductory episode, Professor Degroot uses one of the great adventure stories of the seventeenth century - the tale of fourteen desperate men deserted on two tiny Arctic islands - to identify key themes in the history of climate change.

Find out more at TheClimateChronicles.com.