The little Ice Age is the most recent climatic event in world history that has been documented and thoroughly studied. Here are some quotes from a piece about it and a link at the end:
"The Little Ice Age lasted roughly from 1300 to around 1870 and dropped temperatures in parts of the northern hemisphere by about 1 degree C.
<-->In 1816, New England experienced its "year without summer," when many crops failed.
<-->The Little Ice Age is the only abrupt climate change that people have experienced in industrial times.
<-->Other abrupt changes, like the rapid cooling event that peaked 8,200 years ago, could be far more disruptive.
<-->In the mid-1950s, a change of roughly 3 degrees C over more than 1,000 years was deemed abrupt. In 1999, a team led by Jeffrey Severinghaus at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif., determined that the last ice age ended with a temperature burst that raised the thermostat at Greenland by some 9 degrees C over a mere decade."
For a better 'sense of scale' about time and temperature read all of the article here:
http://www.miqel.com/reading_library/archived_stories/ice-age-global-warming-alert.html Albert Manfredi wrote:
(Still, the silver lining in attributing everything to CO2 specifically,is that it will put an end to the ridiculous, wanton waste of energy. That's
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