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The period is known as the Little Ice Age, and its cause has always been something of a mystery.
However, new research by scientists at the University of Colorado-Boulder (yay team!) may have pegged it: the LIA appears to have started abruptly in the late 13th century, between the years 1275 and 1300. Radiocarbon dating of plants from Baffin Island (north of the Hudson Bay in Canada) and sediment samples from a lake in Iceland indicate that there was a rapid onset of severe cooling at that time. It’s been thought that the cooling started around then, but it’s been hard to pin down until now.
More importantly, this narrows down the cause of the LIA: four tropical volcanoes erupted violently in that period. The ash would have darkened the atmosphere, letting slightly less sunlight down.
Famines were familiar occurrences in Medieval Europe. For example, localised famines occurred in France during the fourteenth century in 1304, 1305, 1310, 1315–1317 (the Great Famine),
3) Famine
Famine was a very real danger for medieval men and women. Faced with dwindling food supplies due to bad weather and poor harvests, people starved or barely survived on meagre rations like bark, berries and inferior corn and wheat damaged by mildew.
Those eating so little suffered malnutrition, and were therefore very vulnerable to disease. If they didn’t starve to death, they often died as a result of the epidemics that followed famine. Illnesses like tuberculosis, sweating sickness, smallpox, dysentery, typhoid, influenza, mumps and gastrointestinal infections could and did kill.
The Great Famine of the early 14th century was particularly bad: climate change led to much colder than average temperatures in Europe from c1300 – the ‘Little Ice Age’. In the seven years between 1315 and 1322, western Europe witnessed incredibly heavy rainfall, for up to 150 days at a time.
Farmers struggled to plant, grow and harvest crops. What meagre crops did grow were often mildewed, and/or terribly expensive. The main food staple, bread, was in peril as a result. This also came at the same time as brutally cold winter weather.
At least 10 per cent – perhaps close to 15 per cent – of people in England died during this period.
We are Repeating 14th Century Climate During the Wolff Grand Solar Minimum Minimum https://abruptearthchanges.com https://abruptearthchanges.com/2017/0... https://abruptearthchanges.files.word...
Chilly August begins as temperatures are forecast to be 20F below normal and even in the 35F range for N.E Canada and Rocky Mountain states. This is contrary to the Weather Channels August forecast calling far above normal temperatures through the month. Additionally NY Times article released the same day cites 2003 heat wave in Europe as proof of global warming, but their writers need to understand the Grand Solar Minimum and cosmic rays better to get the full picture.
Record Cold USA During Summer in Dakotas & Great Lakes with dozens of cold records set and temperatures at least 10-15F below normal temperatures and the media remains silent. Last week all you heard was so hot the airplanes cant take off, but now with record cold during summer and 1/4 of the northern and N.E USA below normal , not a peep. Also global temperatures aren't rising as expected this summer, which is another indication of the intensifying mini ice age. Snows in Russia the days earlier, meters of snow in South America and atmospheric compression events at dozens of locations planet wide, the changes are indeed beginning to themselves. We are entering a mini ice age
With the media focused on a central European heat wave, the conveniently left out of the same temperature map that Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and the deserts of N. Africa are below normal temperatures. Also snow in USA in August comes as a surprise, but Al Gore's ascent from $2 million to $300 million is not a surprise.
This actually ties into what I'm seeing on the ground. July had above average temps, but we've dropped 20 degrees in August.
I've also been watching some old cirques in the mountains here, 8 years ago they melted out every year, but with the heavier snowfall, longer, colder Winters and shorter/hot summer, the glaciers are starting to form again.
Where I am, I do notice American Sycamore trees start turning light brown in August. Been about 2 years noticing. I'm along the I-10 corridor in SW Louisiana. Hot and humid. But this summer, I believe a record has been broken for the wettest summer. Haha. Wife and I want to escape this area and head north. Where we can actually get 4 seasons. Not hot with a few months of cool weather.
So this can mean the reason why the trees I noticed has been changing in August. And I do notice that there's more colors in some of the other trees around here. Mostly red in fall. Some gold. But the majority is brown. We love to go riding up north in th fall to leaf peep. I hear Maine has lovely foliage!
Completely anecdotal, one-off observation, but we are at 82 degrees here in SW MO this afternoon. That will be the high. It has been this way for all of August so far, and is forecast to remain so until at least the last week of the month. I hope for a frost in September. Not likely, it would be the first time in a lot of years. But a guy can dream... Usually, the first half of August here is solid 90-plus and usually some triple digit highs thrown in for good measure. Add in the 90% humidity, and the heat indexes are usually in the triple digits every day. So the low 80's and 60% humidity is a most welcome aberration. I would also mention that garden produce and flowers have consistently matured a month early this year. One year does not a prediction make, but it gives me hope...
A mini-ice age? Please, God, let it be so!
Also, we got ten inches of rain here last weekend in 36 hours. A month before that, we got 25 inches in ten days, with thirteen of that falling in the space of 24 hours. It has been that way all three years we have lived here. It is more common to get three to five inches at a time than to get less. Often, it is more. By comparison, our old place thirty miles southeast of here gets an average of half what we get. I would not be surprised to find that we have gotten more than 100 inches of rain annually here for the last three years. The average annual rainfall here is supposed to be 43 inches. Make of that what you will.
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Winter Type Storms and Temperatures Happening Globally in Summer
