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Bookmark or Share- Six Ways the Little Ice Age Made HistoryThe Little Ice Age changed New England history in ways that historians are only beginning to understand. Though scientists don’t agree on what caused the Little Ice Age, most agree the climate cooled from the 15th century to the middle of the 19th century, with the greatest intensity between 1550 and 1700. Some scientists peg the coldest ...
- How the Little Ice Age Changed History | The New YorkerThe Little Ice Age is an example of how we so often find complete consensus around every aspect of climate change. Just kidding. We know for sure that the earth became cooler: the evidence can be ...
- Little Ice Age (LIA) | BritannicaThe term Little Ice Age was introduced to the scientific literature by Dutch-born American geologist F.E. Matthes in 1939. Originally the phrase was used to refer to Earth’s most recent 4,000-year period of mountain-glacier expansion and retreat. Today some scientists use it to distinguish only the period 1500–1850, when mountain glaciers ...
- Living During the Little Ice Age | Center for Science EducationThe Little Ice Age (AD 1350–1850) was a period of particularly harsh climatic conditions across most parts of the world. Most of the information we have about the Little Ice Age comes from Northern Europe because extensive records were kept there. A combination of decreased solar activity and numerous large volcanic eruptions cooled Earth's ...
- Little Ice Age Shrank Europeans, Sparked Wars - National GeographicThe Little Ice Age's coldest snap, around 1600, eventually sparked upheavals across the Northern Hemisphere, a new study says.
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