Little Ice Age: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Good overviews of the Little Ice Age are Brian Fagan, The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History, 1300–1850 (2000), and The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations (2008). Jean M. Grove, Little Ice Ages: Ancient and Modern, 2nd ed., 2 vol. (2004), is a comprehensive technical treatment of the phenomenon.

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    John P. Rafferty writes about Earth processes and the environment. He serves currently as the editor of Earth and life sciences, covering climatology, geology, zoology, and other topics that relate to the natural world.
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    Professor Emeritus of Botany, University of Wyoming.

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Article History

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Modified link of Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Little Ice Age. Sep 04, 2026
Add new Web site: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Are We on the Brink of a ‘New Little Ice Age?’. May 12, 2026
Add new Web site: CORE - An early ‘Little Ice Age’ brackish water invasion along the south coast of the Caspian Sea (sediment of Langarud wetland) and its wider impacts on environment and people (PDF). Jan 30, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - Late Night Live - The little ice age. Aug 14, 2025
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnological Information - PubMed Central - Little Ice Age abruptly triggered by intrusion of Atlantic waters into the Nordic Seas. Jul 05, 2025
Add new Web site: Nature - Nature Communications - Split westerlies over Europe in the early Little Ice Age. May 24, 2025
Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University - CiteSeerX - Volcanism and the Little Ice Age (PDF). Feb 01, 2025
Add new Web site: PNAS - Was a change in thermohaline circulation responsible for the Little Ice Age? Dec 20, 2024
Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Little Ice Age abruptly triggered by intrusion of Atlantic waters into the Nordic Seas. Nov 04, 2024
Add new Web site: The Pennsylvania State University - Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science - Little Ice Age. May 24, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - The 'Little Ice Age' � only temperature? Apr 10, 2024
Add new Web site: University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences - The ?Little Ice Age?: Re-evaluation of an evolving concept. Feb 28, 2024
Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Little Ice Age. Jan 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Sciences at Smith College - The Effects of the Little Ice Age. Oct 13, 2023
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - The Little Ice Age and Its Giant Impact on Human History. Sep 01, 2023
Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - Little Ice Age abruptly triggered by intrusion of Atlantic waters into the Nordic Seas. May 25, 2023
Corrected display issue. Mar 20, 2023
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Little Ice Age. Mar 03, 2023
Add new Web site: Academia - The 'Little Ice Age' � only temperature? Mar 18, 2016
Graph depicting estimated temperature variation for the Northern Hemisphere and central England between the 10th and 20th centuries added. Aug 26, 2011
New bibliography added. Apr 07, 2011
New article added. Apr 07, 2011
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