The little ice age how climate made history 1300-1850
Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-standing that the world endured a 500-year cold snap -- The Little Ice Age -- that lasted roughly from A.D. 1300 until 1850. The Little Ice Ag...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
2019.
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| Edition: | Revised trade paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Warmth and its aftermath. The Medieval warm period ; The Great Famine
- Cooling begins. The climatic seesaw ; Storms, cod and doggers ; A vast peasantry
- The end of the "full world". The specter of hunger ; The war against the glaciers ; "More like winter than summer" ; Dearth and revolution ; The year without a summer ; An Ghorta Mór
- The modern warm period. A warmer greenhouse.
