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According this a recent paper (http://www.voxeu.org/article/myth-europe-s-little-ice-age http://www.voxeu.org/article/myth-europe-s-little-ice-age), Europe's li

• trhway 11y ago
  >The top panel of Figure 1 shows Low Countries’ summer temperatures from 1301, smoothed using a twenty-five year moving average. The Little Ice Age is immediately evident as a declining trend from the mid 15th to the early 19th centuries, with markedly cold episodes in the late 16th, late 17th, and early 19th centuries. But looking at the unsmoothed graph of summer temperatures in the panel below, the impression is one of randomness, without any major trends, cycles, or breaks: something that our statistical tests confirm. actually the paper exactly confirms the Little Ice Age - given that climate effects are cumulative (drought previous year, rain this year - nice, whereis rain previous 10 years makes your environment a swamp no matter what current year is), the smoothing with 25 years moving average is a very reasonable thing and produces result meaningful for climate and its effects upon, in particular, human civilization.
• ars 11y ago
  The existence of the little ice age has become a pawn in the arguments about global warming. I don't know enough about the topic to say what the truth is, but I can tell you that arguments for and against it have little to do with the little ice age itself, and everything to do with belief for or against global warming. Here is one conservative report on the subject: http://www.wnd.com/2009/12/119745/ http://www.wnd.com/2009/12/119745/
  • lawlessone 11y ago
    "I don't know enough about the topic to say what the truth is" Thanks for confirming for those of us that were not sure.