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N I N G P O S T I N GB Y: M E L I S S A G O O D W I N
THE LITTLE ICE AGE
700 YEARS AGO …
• Extreme & Volatile Climatic Shifts• Cooling of 4 degrees from the climate we know today• Severely Cold• Fatal & history changing consequences• Is it a recurring cycle? Will it happen again?
14TH AND 19TH CENTURIES …
SEDIMENT CORES:
• Fossilized remains • Oceanic creatures
who have temperature preferences• Gives clues to climate
in different areas• Proves a global
cooling of 4 degrees
• Cooling destroyed farm lands• Crops that were the only
source of nutrition were impossible to cultivate.• Catastrophic rains for a
period of 5 years flooded the farming areas• Hunger and starvation
killed approximately 1.5 million
Famine
AFFECTS ON HUMANITY …
•Global cooling killed grape vines that produced wine• Beer and alcohol production began using cereal grains that survived• This culture has stayed true through the ages
Creating a culture of Beer
AFFECTS ON HUMANITY …
THE MAUNDER MINIMUM
• During the years of 1645 to 1752 came the Maunder Minimum• Sunspots dropped significantly, 400 to
only 50• Reduced heat radiation for Earth• Caused an additional 3 degree cooling• Rapid advancing of large glaciers• Continued suffering from destroyed farm
lands
A YEAR WITHOUT A SUMMER …
• Indonesian eruption of Tambora
• Cataclysmic eruption 100,000 times worse than Mt. St. Helen
• 15 ½ miles into the Earth’s atmosphere
• Severe famine caused riots and heightened crime
• Caused the year without a summer in Europe and America
• Extreme cold weather all year round