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Paintings reveal how the Dutch adapted to extreme weather in the little Ice Age
- WalterBright 3y agoadded these to my wallpaper file!
- remoquete 3y agoPeter Brueghel's "Hunters in the Snow" is a favorite of many movie directors. https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/pieter-bruegel-elder-hunters-snow-painting-week/ https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/pieter-bruegel-elder-hunter... Edit: for an ad-free alternative, as kindly suggested by a commenter, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunters_in_the_Snow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunters_in_the_Snow
- Andrex 3y agoAnimal Crossing gave me PTSD for this painting.
- olddustytrail 3y agoLink that isn't unusable ad-ridden crap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunters_in_the_Snow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunters_in_the_Snow
- vanderZwan 3y agoIf only they gave it the same extreme high-res scan treatment that they gave The Harvesters (if you click through to the wikimedia page it has a 30k by 22k pixel scan) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvesters_(painting) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvesters_(painting)
- jmartrican 3y agoTo think how many things occurred during 1250 to 1860. All that progress was made during the little ice age.
- DiscourseFan 3y agoTime to start burning coal again!
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoStaring at my unused skis on my rack in the basement, and at a graph of climate averages for the last decade... and... A little ice age would be nice right around now.
- WeylandYutani 3y agoChildren in the Netherlands now learn to skate on man made ice when it's ten degree Celsius. And we have this of course https://www.snowworld.com/en https://www.snowworld.com/en Life finds a way.
- denvaar 3y agoLooks like mainly they played around on the ice.
- KajMagnus 3y agoWithout helmets. And often in just shoes — did you ever try walking in shoes on an ice skating rink? I guess it gets simpler with practice, still I wonder how many more % concussions and damaged wrists the cold weather caused
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoNatural ice on lakes is usually rougher, because it typically has snow on top that partially freezes on. Esp if there's frequent melt+refreeze. There's the odd winter where you get ice smooth and snowless like a rink, but rare. Used to walk around on ponds and lakes quite a bit as a kid.
- bawolff 3y agoAs someone who has curled - yes. Ice that is rough is easier to walk on.
- jemmyw 3y agoThe paintings show some of the things they did in the colder climate. They don't show how they adapted, which was the same way human populations always adapt to things that affect food production one way or another: having fewer people to feed
- jhoechtl 3y ago> During the Little Ice Age, which spanned roughly 1250 to 1860, average global temperatures dropped by as much as 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Serious question: When we say mean annual temperature rose because of man-induced climate change, what is the time span we use for comparison?
- mytailorisrich 3y agoI think you'll find the graph in the "Little Ice Age" Wikipedia page telling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
- ChrisClark 3y agoHah, that graph perfectly answers his question. Thanks. :)
- taneq 3y agoAnd that’s only to y2k, we’re another 0.5 degrees C above the graph now, in 20 years. Wheeee.
- eikenberry 3y agoThat focuses on global temperatures where the little ice age only really impacted Europe. Is there a graph like that for just the areas impacted by the little ice age?
- cpburns2009 3y agoI'm confused. The Smithsonian article says mean global temperature dropped as low as 3.6 F (2 C). The Wikipedia image shows mean global temperature dropped at most 0.5 C. What's the cause for this large discrepancy?
- kimixa 3y agoI'm always wary about weasel words like "As Much As", especially with no direct reference to see how the original data was presented. I always just assume that means "By the most optimistic possible reading of the data that furthers the goal of this article" - so it may be that the value from the most extreme single data point of minimum->maximum is 3.6f. The wikipedia graph even states in the description that "Little Ice Age was not a distinct planet-wide period but a regional phenomenon" - though that again in turn doesn't seem to be directly stated in the referenced citation and editorialization too....
- gwbas1c 3y agoFYI: A more recent hypothesis of the little ice age's cause has to do with the massive pandemic that hit American Indians: American Indians used fire to control vegetation, and European contact introduced diseases that caused a massive pandemic and general societal collapse. Or, to put it mildly, the American Indians stopped massive burning projects, which introduced less carbon into the air.
- cpursley 3y agoWell that's pretty fascinating.
- zdragnar 3y agoIt also seems to be off by a few hundred years, alas.
- bawolff 3y agoHmm? Contact happened in the early 1500s, it probably takes 50-100 years or so for forest to revert back to natural state. Doesn't seem that far off.
- zdragnar 3y agoTemperatures were steadily declining from at least roughly 1280, though it didn't reach the point of being termed "little ice age" until later. If changes to native burning due to contact-spread diseases are to be responsible, it wouldn't make sense for the temperatures to be declining for 250 years or more prior to contact.
- Daz1 3y agoEndemic*
- rcMgD2BwE72F 3y agoSource?
- thriftwy 3y agoAt the turn of XX century, in St. Petersburg they would lay rails on the ice of Neva and get a tram going across the river [1] Will not possible nowdays due to a combination of climate change and the fact that megapolis makes its own weather - it now thaws regularly. Also not necessary due to all the bridges :) 1. https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ледовый_трамвай_Санкт-Петербурга#/media/Файл:TramIceSenatsky01.jpg https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ледовый_трамвай_Санкт-Петербур...
- Archelaos 3y ago> Italian artist Gabriel[e] Bella, meanwhile, depicted the frozen canals of Venice in 1708. Gabriele Bella's painting is quite interesting.[1] For the uninitiated it looks rather like a modern painting. Reminds me of Giorgio de Chirico. [1] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_frozen_lagoon_1708.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Venice_frozen_lagoon...
- jszymborski 3y agoYou're right, the figures are very expressive and dynamic. It's a pretty hilarious painting. Has an almost Magritte sense of humour.