Sentences with phrase «little ice age in»

Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov, who heads Russia's prestigious Pulkovo Observatory in St. Petersburg, predicts that: «after the maximum of solar Cycle - 24, from approximately 2014, we can expect the start of the next bicentennial cycle of deep cooling with a Little Ice Age in 2055 plus or minus 11 years» (the 19th to occur in the past 7,500 years).

And thank goodness we have been in a gradual warming trend since the depths of the Little Ice Age in the late 1600s.

The European Alps have been growing since the end of the last little Ice Age in 1850 when glaciers began shrinking as temperatures warmed, but the rate of uplift has accelerated in recent decades because global warming has sped up the rate of glacier melt, the researchers say.

There has indeed been some warming, perhaps about 0.8 degrees Celsius, since the end of the so - called Little Ice Age in the early 1800s.

Changes of the equilibrium - line altitude since the Little Ice Age in the Nepalese Himalaya.

The Little Ice Age in Europe, which is believed to have lasted from 1300 to the mid-1800s, was a terrible time for European societies, with recurrent crop failure and starvation, Peiser says.

It may be asking a for a lot of research to put that together, but I think a non cherry picked set of graphs would be a more credible demonstration that although the earth appears to have been warming at a rate of around 1 degree F per century since the end of the Little Ice Age in the mid 1800s, there's no convincing evidence that this warming is anything other than a natural process.

A warm and wet Little Climatic Optimum and a cold and dry Little Ice Age in the Southern Rocky Mountains, U.S.A

They cite the little ice age in Europe or a localized warming someplace else, leaving out the little fact that localized events mean nothing, that on a global scale the little ice age was matched by a «little warming period» someplace else, and that global temperatures are warming.

The problem, ignored by proponents, is that it has warmed naturally since the nadir of the Little Ice Age in the 1680s.

Until that time, both scientists and historians agreed that there was good evidence for a period in the Middle Ages with temperatures as warm or warmer than today (thus the name «Greenland» and not «Glacierland») and a period known as the Little Ice Age in the 17th to 19th centuries that was quite frosty.

There will be another Little Ice Age in 2030, according to solar scientists — the last one was 300 years ago - http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/mini-ice-age-coming-in-next-fifteen-years-new-model-of-the-suns-cycle-shows-10382400.html

Have global temperatures — and please listen to the question carefully — have global overall temperatures increased in the past 50 years — not the past 100 years — because we know the temperatures globally rose after the end of the Little Ice Age in the 1700s, and that global temperatures have risen about 1 degree Celsius in the past 100 years.

«By flipping the data opposite to the interpretation of Tiljander et al, Mann shows the Little Ice Age in Finland as being warmer than the MWP, 100 % opposite to the interpretation of the authors and the paleoclimate evidence.

And if you don't accept that as a possibility, then please tell us what caused the little ice age in the first place.

When I say recovery from the Little Ice Age in some sense «explains» global warming, I mean to say that the current warming trend began when the LIA ended and has been proceeding more or less apace ever since.

«After the maximum of solar cycle 24, from approximately 2014 we can expect the start of the next bicentennial cycle of deep cooling with a Little Ice Age in 2055 ± 11.

Dr Abdussamatov has predicted that the reduction in sunspots will reach a minimum in 2042, and temperatures will begin to fall in 2014 culminating in the 19th Little Ice Age in the past 7500 years, beginning in 2055 ± 11.

Yet, this rise has had no effect on the temperature trends, which have continued their cycle of recovery from the Little Ice Age in close correlation with increasing solar activity.»

Because sunspots are eerily disappearing from the face of our sun — just as they disappeared during the Little Ice Age in the late 1600s — speculation of another cooling period has been widespread by bodies such as the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the Riken research foundation.

Thus the statement is actually `... while cooling following the 14th century could be viewed as the initial onset of the Little Ice Age in a broad sense.»

Or the shift from the Little Ice Age in Europe to the present, where we see no Frost Fairs on the Thames in London, and no frozen canals in Holland.

One of the main excuses used back then was that the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in Europe and North America were local phenomena.

Figure 3 (Data sources here and here) There is a secular warming trend that has persisted since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 19th century.

Since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 1880s, the planet has warmed by about 0.8 degrees C.

The issue centers around the paradox that global warming could instigate a new Little Ice Age in the northern hemisphere.»

End of the Little Ice Age in the Alps forced by industrial black carbon.

«The global temperature has been rising at a steady trend rate of 0.5 °C per century since the end of the little ice age in the 1700s (when the Thames River would freeze over every winter; the last time it froze over was 1804)...

Some studies show that the Little Ice Age in the mid 17th century was associated with more cases of political upheaval and warfare than in any other period (Parker 2008, Zhang et al., 2011), including in Europe (Tol and Wagner 2010), China (Brook 2010), and the Ottoman empire (White 2011b).

Peter Brueghel the elder hunters in the snow (the one I referenced) painted during the first great winter of the little ice age in 1565 shows three hunters and their dogs setting out from a snowbound village while the villagers skate on nearby ponds.

The onset of the deep bicentennial minimum of TSI is expected in 2042 ± 11, that of the 19th Little Ice Age in the past 7500 years — in 2055 ± 11.»

Or, in a shorter period, it has generally warmed from the nadir of the Little Ice Age in 1680.

3) Atmospheric levels of CO2 have been increasing since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 19th century.

Villalba, R., «Tree - ring and Glacial Evidence for the Medieval Warm Epoch and the Little Ice Age in Southern South America».

It is interesting to note, however, that the winter of 1964 - 1965 when Bruegel created his Hunters in the Snow was particularly harsh, and marked the beginning of the so - called Little Ice Age in the north.

They find a distinguishable Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age in the record.

The European Alps have been growing since the end of the last little Ice Age in 1850 when glaciers began shrinking as temperatures warmed, but the rate of uplift has accelerated in recent decades because global warming has sped up the rate of glacier melt, the researchers say.

Villalba (1994) «Tree Ring and Glacial Evidence for the Medieval Warm Epoch and the Little Ice Age in Southern South America» Climate Change 26, 183 - 197.

Our study is significant because, while there are various different estimates for the start and end of the Little Ice Age in different regions of the world, our data show that the most extreme phases occurred at the same time in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

Not exact matches

There was no explanation of why both the medieval warm period and the little ice age, very clearly shown in the 1990 report, had simply disappeared eleven years later.

There is no evidence for significant increase of CO2 in the medieval warm period, nor for a significant decrease at the time of the subsequent little ice age.

Frankly, if I wanted to worry about climate change, I would worry about global cooling again, since the sun is behaving very weakly just now, and sun - watching scientists have even dared to suggest that a reprise of the Little Ice Age is in the offing.

A little trick I learned ages ago for keeping cool: an ice cube in your bra.

They also analyzed data from a climate model developed by the Max - Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany to predict what the correlation between the current and rainfall would be expected to be during the Little Ice Age.

The data showed that, in comparison to today, the Atlantic Ocean surface circulation was much weaker during the Little Ice Age, a cool period thought to be triggered by volcanic activity that lasted from 1450 - 1850.

«It seems that the sun's quiescence was responsible for the most extreme phases of the Little Ice Age, implying that solar variability sometimes plays a significant role in climate change.

The data show that the most extreme cold phases of the Little Ice Age — in the mid-15th and then again in the early 18th centuries — were synchronous in Europe and South America.

A change in solar activity may also, for example, have contributed to the post Little Ice Age rise in global temperatures in the first half of the 20th Century.

But during the Little Ice Age, a period from roughly 1400 to 1850 when temperatures in Europe were cooler and many of Earth's glaciers expanded, the biggest changes came from the Intertropical Convergence Zone shifting to the south.

A team of UK researchers has shed new light on the climate of the Little Ice Age, and rekindled debate over the role of the sun in climate change.