Viking Farms Tell Cautionary Climate Tale

NPR ^ | 6-16-2008 | Richard Harris

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The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan Paperback

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TFTL...

. . . and right next to it:

The Two-Mile Time Machine: Ice Cores, Abrupt Climate Change, and Our Future
by Richard B. Alley

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Might be worth getting that out of the library, although it’s hard to tell much from the two institutional reviews on the page. :’) Thanks skeptoid.

[wildbill]

Wasn’t there a ‘little ice age’ that started about the end of the 1200s, probably caused by a comet/asteroid.

As I recall, the event was memorialized all over the world in writings of observers.

An icelandic farm would have become virtually unusable for crops during a year or two of perpetual darkness caused by ash in the atmosphere.

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The Little Ice Age kicked in fast; there was a cold, rainy spring unlike anything in memory or folklore, resulting in famine problems that year and subsequently; farmsteads dating from the medieval warming period are found at higher latitudes and altitudes than are possible now; in Iceland, polar bears appeared, having crossed the ice from Greenland. I like the idea of the LIA beginning with an impact, but haven’t pursued that yet. :’)

[wildbill]

there have been several shows on TV about it with scientists from diverse fields contributing.

this one about a Chinese document that noted the event in the sky and that one studying tree rings for growth inhibition.

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Interesting, send mail with whatever you remember about titles and stuff, please and thank you. :’)