Little Ice Age

Unpredictable climatic shifts described by Brian Fagan in “The Little Ice Age” had a large impact European history from 1300 through 1850, marked by significant temperature drops and turbulent weather. During this time, families suffered after the weather ruined agricultural crops and caused fish to stay further south, in turn negatively affecting economies. The wet summers and cold winters also aided in the spread of epidemics. The failing crop harvests as well as flopping fishing territories. Brian Fagan demonstrates the unique implications the Little Ice Age had on history, finding interesting connections between weather patterns and events. English farms and Scandinavian fisheries took particularly hard hits when the Little Ice Age ruined their products. During the coldest shift of the era, English growing seasons shortened and Scandinavian fish turned to warmer, southern waters. Between the years 1680 and 1730, the coolest cycle affected more than just Europe it was felt by the whole world. Hungry and cold, the poor populations struggled to survive. Sea ice blocked ships from importing and exporting goods to and from coastal ports. In addition, those living in valley villages feared the advancing glaciers. The “high tide of…

The Little Ice Age was essentially a negative feedback loop. With reduced temperature and strong winds, there was a lot of precipitation in the form of snow. The snow helped to reflect the sunlight out of the Earth, adding to the cooling effect of the Ice Age. Furthermore, since there was a reduced amount of solar radiation during the period, the expanding glaciers were also able to further reflect out any radiation, leading to the initial decreasing in temperature as seen in negative feedback…

It is strange to think that climate patterns affecting people across the world can affect entire civilizations spread oceans apart. It can be said that the challenges of the Little Ice Age were brought over to Early Colonial Mexico, but more so its effects. One region’s success in going out to venture, trade, and colonize; epitomized by the Dutch’s accomplishments in those three aspects proved to be another regions apocalypse. Due to Europe’s conditions, both climatic and situational led to its…

may erupt. Not only is it going to erupt, but it is predicted to be so big it may bring another ice age, but I’m not buying it. In the seventies it was global cooling, then the nineties brought global warming, when the models didn’t come to fruition they changed it to climate change in the two thousands. Now they are convinced they can tell that a volcano that has oozed as long as I can remember, hell as long as anyone can remember, is suddenly going to erupt and cause a second ice age, BS.…

This gives us an insight into the ocean chemistry at the time of the end of the glacial melt as a large amount of carbon from earth into the sea floor. The scientific explanation to this geological formation would be. During the Period of snowball earth, the carbon dioxide which accumulated from global volcanic eruptions that was able to penetrate through the ice, which has little impact on the temperature. The large volume of carbon dioxide build over time would have easily led to the…

The book “The Huntress” is about the world not having any energy to make the seasons happen. The people were all suffering because they couldn't get any food to grow. Hostile creatures were emerging from the Wood as a result of the lack of nutrients and attacking people. Kaede and Taisin had been called to go on a quest to Tanlili and meet the Fairy Queen to fix this problem. The conflict in this book is to get the world going again before the humans won't be able to survive any longer. Kaede…

and ice-shelf history,” Robert Mulvaney and several scientists discussed the climate history of the Antarctic Peninsula and its relationship to the collapsing ice shelves. They observed that the ice shelves were collapsing which allowed the glaciers to drain ice at a faster rate. The ice shelves that collapsed were at the Antarctic Peninsula which has had the most rapid warming over the past 50 years. Mulvaney and other scientists that worked along with him saw the importance of figuring out the…

During ten thousand B.C. at the Northern Hemisphere, an abrupt global climate change that led to glacial like weather occured. This period is known as Younger Dryas Climate Event. Due to the earth warming, the ice age starting melting. This huge amount of freshwater started flowing into the gulf through the Mississippi River and also to north Atlantic from the east coast. This unusual flow of freshwater into the saltwater caused the water currents to change suddenly causing different weather…

of which is radiated back to the surface. This process is called the greenhouse effect. To continue, humans add a lot of extra gasses into the atmosphere, which warms up the whole place. The gasses mainly responsible for this include CO2( the main one), water vapor, methane and nitrous oxide. The gasses are natural, but too much of one thing is never a good thing. After the industrial revolution, carbon dioxide gas gone insane, so much of it is omitted into the atmosphere. According to National…

The last ice age happened 2 million years ago until 10,000 years ago. At this point, North America is at its normal position, north of the equator. The glacier that covered the Ice Age was the Laurentide Ice Sheet. Before the Ice Age, there was a valley called the Hudson Valley. During the Ice Age a glacier scraped through the rock, which gouged out 240 meters of rock. The sediments got removed from their previous location and deposited in a huge pile, a terminal moraine in Long Island. The…