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How about Little Ice Age?

We learn about the Little Ice Age and Medieval Optimum (often called the «Medieval Warm Period») of the relatively recent past, go deeper into the more distant past of the Ice Ages, and then, in Chapter 6, learn about geologic climate cycles.

We also learnt about the little ice age and other cold periods and the Fairs held on the Thames and some of us have even seen the odd Breughel painting.

There are many books about the Little Ice Age.

The thing about the Little Ice Age and all the other stages of the millennial scale cycle is that the beginnings and ends if each stage are difficult to identify.

Hence skeptics are extremely adamant there was a very cold and global little ice age, but from the other side of their mouth they will rubbish all lines of evidence like tree ring reconstructions and the instrumental record that are needed to make such an adamant claim about the little ice age.

This week there are a spate of news stories about a little ice age coming — even from the uber warmista Potsdam Institute.

Re: # 127: For what Mann thinks about the Little Ice Age, I would read: http://holocene.meteo.psu.edu/shared/articles/littleiceage.pdf

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To the surprise of everyone who knew about the strong evidence for the little ice age and the medieval climate optimum, the graph showed a nearly constant temperature from the year 1000 until about 150 years ago, when the temperature began to rise abruptly like the blade of a hockey stick.

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.

Heavier rainfall at the study sites from the year 0 to 400, and again during Europe's Medieval Warm Period, just before the Little Ice Age from about the year 800 to 1300, was probably caused by a centuries - long strengthening of El Niño.

(Global average temperature fell by about a degree during the Little Ice Age, although scientists have struggled to quantify local cooling.)

For instance, we had the little ice age about 300 years ago.

About 750 years ago, a powerful volcano erupted somewhere on Earth, kicking off a centuries - long cold snap known as the Little Ice Age.

There is some debate about when the «Little Ice Age» — the last time when global average temperatures were falling — ended, but it is well documented that glaciers started receding around that time as a result of the relative warming of the planet.

Since then, there have been small - scale climate shifts — notably the «Little Ice Age» between about 1200 and 1700 A.D. — but in general, the Holocene has been a relatively warm period in between ice agIce Age» between about 1200 and 1700 A.D. — but in general, the Holocene has been a relatively warm period in between ice agice ages.

4) The evidence about the medieval warming period and little ice age are convincing and supported by different methods.

See the RealClimate discussions of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period for explanations of why both the Viking colonization of Greenland and the freezing of the River Thames actually tells us relatively little about past climate cLittle Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period for explanations of why both the Viking colonization of Greenland and the freezing of the River Thames actually tells us relatively little about past climate clittle about past climate change.

The substantial uncertainties currently present in the quantitative assessment of large - scale surface temperature changes prior to about A.D. 1600 lower our confidence in this conclusion compared to the high level of confidence we place in the Little Ice Age cooling and 20th century warming.»

There is very little that compels us about this vision that is chiefly attributed to screenwriter Jason Fuchs (a contributor to Ice Age: Continental Drift) and director Joe Wright, a Brit who comes to this project having primarily made costume dramas like Atonement, 2012's Anna Karenina, and 2005's Pride & Prejudice.

Zugspitzplatt is situated by the impressive Schneeferner glacier - Germany's largest glacier that came about during the «Little Ice Age» of the 19th century.

The next 6 decades to 1949 are all warming as temperatures climb out of the Little Ice Age, from about 9.1 to 9.6 degrees C.

4) The evidence about the medieval warming period and little ice age are convincing and supported by different methods.

The next 6 decades to 1949 are all warming as temperatures climb out of the Little Ice Age, (when the Thames froze) from about 9.1 to 9.6 degrees C. For the last 6 decades, to 2009, we are looking for the impact (or non-impact) of exponentially increasing CO2.

The next 6 decades to 1949 are all warming as temperatures climb out of the Little Ice Age, from about 9.1 to 9.6 degrees C. For the last 6 decades, to 2009, we are looking for the impact (or non-impact) of exponentially increasing CO2.

The next 6 decades to 1949 are all warming as temperatures climb out of the Little Ice Age, (when the Thames and the sea froze) from about 9.1 to 9.6 degrees C.

The thing I find a bit curious about the result that is the subject of this blog article, though, is the statement that the model used reproduces the Little Ice Age climate simply as a response to the luminosity reduction.

He's talking about the supposed ~ 60 year natural cycle over a benign recovery from the little ice age, as slightly influenced by mankind's emissions.

Could you comment on the recent articles about the reduction in sunspot activity possibly negating the effect of global warming and even putting us into another Little Ice Age.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

Having read the comments here and in Jones and Mann (2004) «Climate over past millennia», I have been reflecting on some of the comments about the hockey stick wrt the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and the Little Ice Age (LIA).

«For instance, our Earth went through a 500 - year Little Ice Age — then warmed about a degree since that era ended around 1850.

How the above pieces address Judge's questions I get the feeling that the Judge has some misconceptions about things from the way some of the questions are phrased, particularly the question about atmospheric CO2 having reflective properties, and the «little ice age» being lumped together with other ice ages.

The coldest years of the so called «Little Ice age» occur around 1600 and are about -0.7 colder than average, with individual years down to -1.2 ºC.

Now, how about the Holocene — including the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period that seem to figure so prominently in many skeptics» tracts?

The Little Ice Age that began in the 14th century reduced the temperature of at least the northern hemisphere by about one degree centigrade in a couple of hundred years, and CO-2 emissions had nothing to do with it.

The paleoclimatic record suggests we may possibly lose about a watt per square meter if we return to Little Ice Age conditions, which is considerably smaller than the greenhouse forcing expected in the coming century.

As I have little faith in nature producing stright lines: — RRB -, what are the chances that what we are seeing is the result of the leading edge of a half cycle of some long period waveform with a low point around the Little Ice Age and the high point being aboulittle faith in nature producing stright lines: — RRB -, what are the chances that what we are seeing is the result of the leading edge of a half cycle of some long period waveform with a low point around the Little Ice Age and the high point being abouLittle Ice Age and the high point being about now?

The planet has warmed up since the Little Ice Age and it has warmed up relatively quickly between 1975 and 1998, so much so that we humans are becoming consumed with guilt and anxiety about our place on Earth.

I suspect that it looked OK in your view or you didn't check; «the paper i cited talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.

Unconvinced of the human contribution to warming, the alternative that Zycher suggests is that the warming we have observed may be a symptom of our emergence from a little ice age (starting in about 1800).

There are many who will not like this recent paper published in Nature Communications on principle as it talks of the hiatus in global temperatures for the past 20 years or so, that the Little Ice Age was global in extent, and that climate models can not account for the observations we already have let alone make adequate predictions about what will happen in the future.

Fortunately, we have not had a «little ice age» since about 1850 — so why should we be longing for another one any time soon?

In the past few centuries, smaller transitions (such as the ending of the Little Ice Age at about 1650 AD) probably occurred over only a few decades at most.

For the IPCC both the MWP (Medieval Warm Period) and the LIA (Little Ice Age) existed before the «hockey stick,» so viewing the situation objectively — after the IPCC participated in the rewriting of history by showcasing the «hockey stick as a part of the Left's efforts to manufacture a supposed consensus about climate change — the IPCC condoned a fraud that federal climatists to this very day persist in perpetrating on the public.

Throughout most of what is commonly called the Little Ice Age (1500 — 1850) the mean solar activity was quite low, but positive fluctuations occurred about 1540 — 90 and 1770 — 1800.

For example — you said — How about the period between the medieval warm period and the little ice age for a period that the climate was stable?

How about the period between the medieval warm period and the little ice age for a period that the climate was stable?

These articles actually refer to the Little Ice Age (LIA)-- a period about 500 to 150 years ago when global surface temperatures were about 1 °C colder than they are today.

We are also in the midst of a natural warming trend that began about 1850, as we emerged from a four - hundred - year cold spell known as the «Little Ice Age.»