Neither Thucydides, Gibbon, von Ranke, nor Braudel ever cited a paper appearing in Geophysical Research Letters. They did not worry themselves about fluctuations in the Siberian High or the Southern ...
J. R. McNeill
J. R. McNeill teaches environmental and global history at Georgetown University. His books include Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-century World (2000); Mosquito Empires: Ecology and War in the Greater Caribbean, 1620–1914 (2010). He has authored several papers in scientific journals, but, alas, not Geophysical Research Letters.