Little Ice Age
Europe's cold centuries
The Little Ice Age was a period of cooling in the Northern Hemisphere, roughly from the 14th to the 19th century.
Glaciers advanced, rivers froze that rarely freeze now, and crop failures brought famine.
The term appears in climate discussions contrasting natural variability with modern warming: Global temperatures have risen sharply since the Little Ice Age ended.
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- paleoclimatePast geological climate conditions
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
- coldLow temperature state
- moraineGlacier-deposited debris pile
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Little Ice Ageglacial period
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