- Little Ice Age, The
Article by Richard D. Tkachuck looking at the historic and physical indicators for, as well as possible causes of, the little ice age.
www.grisda.org/origins/10051.htm
- Little Ice Age - Wikipedia
Article about the Little Ice Age (LIA), a period of cooling occurring after a warmer era known as the Medieval climate optimum.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
- Ice-core Evidence of Rapid Climate Shift During the Termination of the Little Ice Age
USGS slide presentation of glaciological data that provides evidence for abrupt climatic change during the termination of the Little Ice Age (LIA).
wwwbrr.cr.usgs.gov/projects/SW_corrosion/icecore/index.html
- Chapter Ten: The Little Ice Age
Excerpt from Brian Fagan's book, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Niņo and the Fate of Civilizations.
williamcalvin.com/readings/Fagan%201999%20chapter%20on%20LIA.htm
- From Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England in the Little Ice Age
Reviews the history of the disease in a nontropical country, England, during the coldest years of the Little Ice Age.
www.cdc.gov/Ncidod/eid/vol6no1/reiter.htm
- Little Ice Age: Was It Big Enough to be Global?
Describes the period between 1550-1700 when the global average temperature dropped between 1 and 2 degrees Celsius.
jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/Weather/PaperProposalArticles/TheLittleIceAgewasit...
- Climatic Variability in Sixteenth-Century Europe and Its Social Dimension
Abstracts from the book addressing the cooling climate of the period and the change's effects on the economic and social structure of Europe.
www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/clim/1999/00000043/00000001/00235206
- Influence of Dramatic Climate Shifts on European Civilizations: The Rise and Fall of the Vikings and the Little Ice Age
Looks at the far reaching effects of long-term climate change human activities including exploration, agriculture, health, deaths, economics, and art and literature.
www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/index.html
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