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Little Ice Age
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English
Etymology
From en little ice age, en Q19893340 1939 1.
Proper noun
little Ice Age 1
A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850.
en LIA
en The Last Lost World Lydia Pyne; Stephen J. Pyne Penguin 2012 9780670023639 The Little Ice Age that chilled Europe–variously dated from 1250 to 1900 or 1550 to 1850–should, according to past precedents, have snowballed into a full-blown ice age.
en Alice Bell on http://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored) 2021-07-05 2021-07-05 The Guardian They knew that the so-called “little ice age”, a series of cold snaps between, roughly, 1350 and 1850, had brought not only drought and famine, but also war – and so could these new climatic changes. https://web.archive.org/web/20261020135540/https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/05/sixty-years-of-climate-change-warnings-the-signs-that-were-missed-and-ignored 20 October 2026
Translations
period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period
Bulgarian: bg Ма́лък ле́дников перио́д m
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