a recent doctoral dissertation<\/a> out of Denmark examines the effect of the cold winters that began to afflict the Vikings of Greenland in or near AD 1300, and the measures that they took to survive.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Little Ice Age probably wasn\u2019t caused by factory emissions and auto exhaust, by the way.<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 Without taking a stance here on the question of human-caused global warming, let me simply observe that the climate of the Earth is, and always has been, variable. \u00a0The fact that we speak about average and mean temperatures implies pretty strongly that, over shorter periods (\u201cshorter\u201d in geological terms, though not in terms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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