The Little Ice Age

by Brian M. Fagan

"The Little Ice Age, the most significant climate even of the last millennium, was sandwiched between two warm spells - the Medieval Warm Period, which lasted from about 900 to 1300 A.D., and the present global warming, which began in about 1850. Although climatologists long suspected the broad outlines of these periods, only within the past decade have they developed an accurate picture of climate conditions in historical times. They can now determine yearly average temperatures and rainfall, the times and magnitude of volcanic eruptions, and even how brightly the sun shone centuries...

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