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The Little Ice Age, by the anthropologist Brian Fagan of the University of California at Santa Barbara, describes the plight of European peasants from 1300 to 1850: famines, hypothermia, bread riots and the rise of despotic leaders brutalizing an increasingly dispirited peasantry.
The Little Ice Age is known for its effects in Europe and the North Atlantic region over hundreds of years, but was it comparable to past ice ages?
Little Ice Age (LIA), climate interval that occurred from the early 14th century through the mid-19th century, when mountain glaciers expanded at several locations, including the European Alps, New Zealand, Alaska, and the southern Andes, and mean annual temperatures across the Northern Hemisphere.
7 mar 2022 · Researchers have offered a range of explanations for the Little Ice Age, from volcanic eruptions to the European destruction of indigenous societies in the Americas, which caused forests to...
Two periods of low sunspot activity (1450-1540 and 1645-1715) coincided with some of the coldest years of the Little Ice Age in Europe. The North Atlantic Oscillation is an atmospheric circulation pattern over the North Atlantic Ocean. In its positive phase, storms are centered over the United Kingdom and Northern Europe.
The Mini-Ice Age roughly spanned the era from 1200 to 1850, when countries in the Northern Hemisphere particularly experienced exceptionally cold winters. The River Thames often froze, from 1607 to 1814 there were frost fairs, and in the winter of 1780 New York Harbour froze, allowing people to walk from Manhattan to Staten Island.
12 mar 2022 · By the 16th and 17th centuries, northern Europe had left its medieval warm period and was languishing in what is sometimes called the Little Ice Age.
