Little Ice Age - Wikipedia
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.
What Was the Little Ice Age? | Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica
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) | Britannica
2024年12月20日 · 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
The Effects of the Little Ice Age (c. 1300-1850)
The Little Ice Age was a period of wide-spread cooling that lasted from the end of the Medieval Warm Period early in the 14th century, until the present-day warming trend that started in the middle to late 19th century (graph below).
Winter Is Coming: Researchers Uncover the Surprising Cause of …
2021年12月15日 · AMHERST, Mass. – New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst provides a novel answer to one of the persistent questions in historical climatology, environmental history and the earth sciences: what caused the Little Ice Age? The answer, we now know, is a paradox: warming.
Little Ice Age abruptly triggered by intrusion of Atlantic waters …
2021年12月15日 · The Little Ice Age (LIA) was the coldest period in the Holocene in the Northern Hemisphere (NH). It began in the 13th century because of a drop in temperatures (following the eruption of Samalas in 1257 CE), but temperatures fell abruptly again in …
How the Little Ice Age Changed History - The New Yorker
2019年3月25日 · During this epoch, often known as the Little Ice Age, temperatures dropped by as much as two degrees Celsius, or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Compared with the extremes of snowball earth,...
Little Ice Age - EH Resources
2015年6月5日 · The Little Ice Age was a period of regionally cold conditions between roughly AD 1300 and 1850. The term “Little Ice Age” is somewhat questionable, because there was no single, well-defined period of prolonged cold.
The original climate crisis – how the little ice age devastated early ...
2022年3月7日 · 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...
The Little Ice Age was brutal. How did people survive?
2024年2月20日 · But what caused the Little Ice Age, how long did it last, how did people adapt to its frigid grip—and what lessons can we learn as we enter our own period of climatic change?