How has climate shaped history? Is geography destiny?

What was behind the climate changes that changed the fate of the world?

What made Rome become a world empire?

How was the Americas discovered before Columbus?

Why did the Mayan culture suddenly disappear from the face of the earth?

How did climate set the stage for revolutions?

Could Napoleon have subjugated the Russians?

How were Hitler's armies defeated?

What was behind the 20th century's climate disasters?

Ronald D. Gerste's study on the historical consequences of weather and climate, How Weather Makes History, illustrates the dynamic structure of climate, which depends on a multitude of variables, with historical breaking moments, and draws attention to the critical consequences of human interaction with nature on weather conditions, sometimes to the point of ending a civilization. Based on climate history data, he underlines that climate changes are neither as anthropocentric as disaster scenarios suggest nor as independent of humans as those who deny the concrete reality claim, and offers a rational prediction on how we should approach climate problems today.