Climate: the once and future crisis

In the 17th century, something like a third of the world’s population died.
Geoffrey Parker, in his monumental book on that terrible century, Global Crisis: War, Climate Change & Catastrophe in the 17th Century, itemizes the climate disasters that overwhelmed Europe, Asia, India and the Americas. Japan suffered in 1616 its coldest spring ever, it snowed in Fujian in 1618, and successive waves of drought and flood in India and Europe in the 1620-30s savaged harvests in many countries.
One of the “years without a summer,” 1628, followed 1627, the wettest summer in Europe in 500 years. The 1640s were

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