Mini ice ages ad wars3/12/2023 These were cold snaps, not heat waves, but the overall story should seem familiar: A small global change in climate dramatically altered the likelihood of extreme local weather. Poems and songs suggest people simply froze to death while huddling in their homes. In early 1658, ice so completely covered the Baltic Sea that a Swedish army marched across the water separating Sweden and Denmark to besiege Copenhagen. Sea ice trapped ships, repeatedly enclosed the Chesapeake Bay and froze over rivers from the Bosporus to the Meuse. People reported 17th-century blizzards as far south as Florida and the Chinese province of Fujian. “It is horribly cold,” author Marie de Rabutin-Chantal wrote from Paris during the last of these years “the behavior of the sun and of the seasons has changed.” Less well known are the unusually cold European summers of 1587, 16, when unseasonal frost provoked fear and, in some places, hunger. In one such summer, in 1816, cold that followed a massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia ruined crops across parts of Europe and North America. In diaries and letters from that period, people wrote about “ years without a summer,” when wintry weather persisted long after spring. The global average temperature is believed to have cooled by less than a half-degree Celsius (less than 0.9 F) during even the chilliest decades of the Little Ice Age, but locally, extremes were common.
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