Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- I: Two Tales of Famine -- 1. A Drought in Ancient Greece -- 2. The Case of the Missing Farmers -- 3. Weather of lndian Times -- II: Our Climates since A.D. 900 -- 4. One Thousand Years in Iceland -- 5. The Flow of Wine, Water, and Ice -- 6. The Past 1,000 Years: Europe, the North Atlantic, the United States -- III: The Monsoons Fail -- 7. Death in the Sahel -- 8. A Manmade Desert -- 9. The Enduring Problem -- IV: A Perspective on Climatic Change -- 10. In the Beginning -- 11. How Climate Changes -- 12. Pollutants in the Air -- 13. The Lessons of Climatic History -- References -- Index.