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Expert insight: The parallels of England’s Little Ice Age to modern climate change
Research into England’s Little Ice Age during the 16th and 17th centuries has unearthed more than 1,800 unique pieces of weather observations.
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The Little Ice Age Triggered The Collapse Of The Ming Dynasty, Causing A Series Of Extreme Droughts That Led To Crop Failures, Famine, And Rebellion
Many historic societal changes have been significantly shaped by climate change’s influence. For instance, the Wanli ...
New insights from Shakespeare’s England reveal striking parallels to contemporary climate change
Unprecedented storms and devastating drought. Flash floods and wildfires ignited by the air’s dry heat. This is the ...
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Weather history: Frost fairs in the Little Ice Age
Imagine a winter so severe and prolonged that the River Thames in central London completely froze over with ice so thick there was a "carnival on the water". It surely must have been the highlight ...
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The Frigid Golden Age
Dagomar Degroot offers the first detailed analysis of how a society thrived amid the Little Ice Age, a period of climatic cooling that reached its chilliest point between the sixteenth and eighteenth ...
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America colonisation ‘cooled Earth's climate’
It's a cooling period often referred to in the history books as the "Little Ice Age" - a time when winters in Europe would see the Thames in London regularly freeze over. "The Great Dying of the ...