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In this essay we show that the notion of anthropogenic climate change is not novel. Concerns about transformations of the Earth’s climate by human activities have been expressed since the 18th century Enlightenment and earlier. It Is reasonable, therefore, to speak of a”history of anthropogenic climate changes”. Most of the instances were not “real”. But all cases were associated with the perception of significant discontinuities and in most instances the perceived change was seen as a threat to society. We briefly discuss the possible implications of this “history” for the functioning of the scientific community in the present debate.
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von Storch, H., Stehr, N. (2002). Towards a History of Ideas on Anthropogenic Climate Change. In: Wefer, G., Berger, W.H., Behre, KE., Jansen, E. (eds) Climate Development and History of the North Atlantic Realm. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04965-5_2
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