The Letter from Dublin: Climate Change, Colonialism, and the Royal Society in the Seventeenth Century.

The article presents an examination into the scientific paper published in 1676 regarding anthropogenic climate change. Details are given introducing the anonymously written letter, published by Henry Oldenburg in the "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London." The paper's description of contrasting cases of climate change in colonial America and Ireland, outlining and disputing theories of deforestation and cultivation as their cause, is addressed. Discussion is then provided noting the implications of such a debate over the human causes climate change.