Post by mouse on Apr 4, 2017 4:59:37 GMT -5
www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/WestTech/x14thc.htm
The Little Ice Age
Two great natural disasters struck Europe in the 14th Century. One was climatic: the Little Ice Age. This term is used in wildly varied ways by different authors, and there actually seem to have been two cooling episodes: an earlier one from the late 1200's to 1600 or so, and a later one in the 1700's and 1800's. During the earlier one, the Baltic Sea froze over in 1303, 1306 and 1307, something never before recorded. Alpine glaciers advanced. The Norse settlements in Greenland were cut off and grain cultivation ceased in Iceland. The last ship sailed from Iceland to Greenland in the early 1400's (tantalizingly close to Columbus); when contact was resumed in the 1700's, the settlements were long abandoned. Starvation, disease, raids by English pirates and conflict with natives have all been suggested as causes, and all probably played a role in the demise of the colonies. In France, crops failed after heavy rains in 1315; there were widespread famine, reports of cannibalism, and epidemics.""""
theres a great deal of documentation of the starvation..sickness..crop failures of this period in England..probably other parts of Europe too..also the deep snows that made travel impossible for weeks and some times months and the months of rain which destroyed crops ..prevented sowing or rotted crops in the ground caused fungal growth etc etc
and this is the real reason behind the term dark ages.. a reference to the weather and NOT anything to do with learning or invention/innovation or advancement ..dunno where the misconception came from or why
so much for global warming /cooling being man made
The Little Ice Age
Two great natural disasters struck Europe in the 14th Century. One was climatic: the Little Ice Age. This term is used in wildly varied ways by different authors, and there actually seem to have been two cooling episodes: an earlier one from the late 1200's to 1600 or so, and a later one in the 1700's and 1800's. During the earlier one, the Baltic Sea froze over in 1303, 1306 and 1307, something never before recorded. Alpine glaciers advanced. The Norse settlements in Greenland were cut off and grain cultivation ceased in Iceland. The last ship sailed from Iceland to Greenland in the early 1400's (tantalizingly close to Columbus); when contact was resumed in the 1700's, the settlements were long abandoned. Starvation, disease, raids by English pirates and conflict with natives have all been suggested as causes, and all probably played a role in the demise of the colonies. In France, crops failed after heavy rains in 1315; there were widespread famine, reports of cannibalism, and epidemics.""""
theres a great deal of documentation of the starvation..sickness..crop failures of this period in England..probably other parts of Europe too..also the deep snows that made travel impossible for weeks and some times months and the months of rain which destroyed crops ..prevented sowing or rotted crops in the ground caused fungal growth etc etc
and this is the real reason behind the term dark ages.. a reference to the weather and NOT anything to do with learning or invention/innovation or advancement ..dunno where the misconception came from or why
so much for global warming /cooling being man made
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