American Colonists made a little ice age

Posted by pitzahoy on Monday February 04, 2019 @01:03PM
from the bbc.com dept.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47063973

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Re:American Colonists made a little ice age by pulisse on Monday February 04, 2019 @05:28PM (#19081277)

Actual title is "America colonisation 'cooled Earth's climate'," which is a better summary of TFA.

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Re:American Colonists made a little ice age by infradig on Monday February 04, 2019 @10:44PM (#19082877)

I thought the Little Ice Age actually began several centuries before this. Maybe they lengthened it, or deepened it. But something else was happening as well. Perhaps it was part of an going process... the plague in Europe and the near east etc.

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Re:American Colonists made a little ice age by DyslexicAtheist on Monday February 04, 2019 @06:17PM (#19081667)

link to paper: "Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492"

https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0277379118307261?...

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