Meaning of Little Ice Age | Babel Free

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A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850.

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“The Little Ice Age that chilled Europe–variously dated from 1250 to 1900 or 1550 to 1850–should, according to past precedents, have snowballed into a full-blown ice age.”

“They knew that the so-called “little ice age”, a series of cold snaps between, roughly, 1350 and 1850, had brought not only drought and famine, but also war – and so could these new climatic changes.”

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