January 31st, 2012

Secret History: Volcanoes caused a 'little ice age' in Europe 500 years ago, say scientists

From 1550 to 1850, Earth mysteriously got colder. Communities from Greenland to the Alps were swallowed up by glaciers, and bodies of water like the Baltic Sea and Manhattan Harbor froze over.

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For more on The Little Ice Age, check out Brian Fagan’s The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History. Scientific paper in Geophysical Research Letters.

∞07:40 pm, by ookii ∩97
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