Mini ice age took hold of Europe in months

New Scientist ^ | Nov 11, 2009 | Kate Ravilious

[SunkenCiv]

The claim is made that frozen animals were feeding on "fresh" green plants in their mouths, stomach contents. I don't find that so hard to swallow.

Heh...

[SunkenCiv]

What I was getting at, each glaciation has a lot in common with every other one, but basically, they are all different from one another, hence, each one is a different type. It’s analogous to different kinds of volcanic eruptions — yet, to the fleeing villagers, all eruptions are the same. :’)

[BIGLOOK]

They’re already using colchicine to genetically modify their diploid plants to polyploidal....what’s taking so long.

[calex59]

The mini ice age that most people refer to, took place a lot later than 12,000 years ago. It took place about 1300 AD. give or take(someone, I know, can come up with more precise figures). It took one summer for the weather to change, one summer in which there really wasn't a summer. Starvation and famine was the order of the day after that, Greenland was no longer green, Europe had to learn to grow different crops in order to survive, but that took time. Around the middle of the 19th century, the mini ice age began to subside and we are still recovering from it today.

I didn't write this to refute your posting, just clarifying what most people refer to as the "mini" or "little" ice age.

[Fred Nerks]

I was also taught about rapid onset of ice ages, because back in the 70's the consnsus of the climatologists was that we were heading into another ice age.

The Cooling World Newsweek, April 28, 1975

Excerpt:

...To the layman, the relatively small changes in temperature and sunshine can be highly misleading. Reid Bryson of the University of Wisconsin points out that the Earth’s average temperature during the great Ice Ages was only about seven degrees lower than during its warmest eras – and that the present decline has taken the planet about a sixth of the way toward the Ice Age average. Others regard the cooling as a reversion to the “little ice age” conditions that brought bitter winters to much of Europe and northern America between 1600 and 1900 – years when the Thames used to freeze so solidly that Londoners roasted oxen on the ice and when iceboats sailed the Hudson River almost as far south as New York City.

Just what causes the onset of major and minor ice ages remains a mystery. “Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data,” concedes the National Academy of Sciences report. “Not only are the basic scientific questions largely unanswered, but in many cases we do not yet know enough to pose the key questions.” ...

(RUN FOR THE HILLS, THE ICE AGE IS COMING!)

[Miss Marple]

Thanks for backing up my recollection with an article!

[SunkenCiv]

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[SunkenCiv]

Just an update to the ping messages.

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