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Small climate changes can have devastating local consequences – it happened in the Little Ice Age

  • Written by Dagomar Degroot, Associate Professor of Environmental History, Georgetown University
Small climate changes can have devastating local consequences – it happened in the Little Ice AgeThe Little Ice Age brought some bitter extremes.Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565

In recent weeks, catastrophic floods overwhelmed towns in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, inundated subway tunnels in China, swept through northwestern Africa and triggered deadly landslides in India and Japan. Heat and drought fanned wildfires in the North...

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