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500-year-old Transylvanian diaries reveal how the Little Ice Age shaped life and death

Researchers in Romania have delved into centuries-old documents to grasp how climate fluctuations in the 16th century impacted Transylvania, an area that’s now part of Romania...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/02/tra

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"While the genre paintings of Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, and Jan Steen are forever relegated to the 1600s, Bruegel and Avercamp painted views that, until recently, remained a common sight in every Dutch and Belgian village."

Low Country Climate Canvasses of Little Ice Age

daily.jstor.org/climate-canvas via JSTOR Daily
Original image: Hendrick Avercamp, "Winter Landscape with Skaters near a Town" via PubHist
#LittleIceAge #Art #Renaissance #LowCountries #LowCountry #Climate #Winter

Hari Tulsidas

Some climate change deniers use the Little Ice Age, a period of regional cooling from the 14th to the 19th century, to argue against human-caused global warming. However, this fallacy ignores this event's scientific evidence and historical context. The Little Ice Age was not a global phenomenon but a local one influenced by various factors, such as volcanic eruptions, solar activity, and ocean currents. #LittleIceAge #ClimateChange #Denial salon.com/2023/08/07/what-clim

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Medieval accounts of eclipses shine light on massive volcanic eruptions.
nature.com/articles/d41586-023
"Descriptions of lunar eclipses by monks and other scholars help scientists to pinpoint effects of ancient eruptions."
#Eclipses #VolcanicEruptions #LittleIceAge

PeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦

@bethroots @Dianora Thank you for your kind note. My dad never talked about the war & very little about stuff that he & his family had to deal with during WWI & its aftermath, i.e. inflation, then #GreatDepression, then Hitler and then WWII. And yes - I am sure your in-laws could tell a tale - most likely of man's inhumanity to man. Reading the history of #Europe is horrifying for sure. The #FeudalSystem, #BlackDeath, #Famines, #LittleIceAge, #SpanishIquisition, and war after war after war.

PeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦

Thank you for your kind note. My dad never talked about the war and very little about stuff that he and his family had to deal with during WW1 and its aftermath, i.e. inflation and then #GreatDepression and then Hitler and then WWII. And yes - I am sure you in-laws could tell a tale - most likely of man's inhumanity to man. Reading the history of #Europe is horrifying for sure. The #FeudalSystem, #BlackDeath, #Famines, #LittleIceAge, #SpanishIquisition, and war after war after war.

Claire Barnes

Between 1300 & 1362, as temperatures fell & the #LittleIceAge set in, #weavers in #Greenland made thicker cloth, #WeftDominant. Fascinating #LongRead on #archaeology, the evolution of #spinning & #weaving technique, & #textile as #money, the findings of Michèle Hayeur Smith.
Also mentions Iceland's exports of #fish, which reached the #LadyOfClare in Suffolk!
Article by Francine Russo: scientificamerican.com/article