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The Little Ice Age

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Psychology Press, Oct 3, 2003 - Science - 520 pages
The evidence for the Little Ice Age, the most important fluctuation in global climate in historical times, is most dramatically represented by the advance of mountain glaciers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and their retreat since about 1850. The effects on the landscape and the daily life of people have been particularly apparent in Norway and the Alps. This major book places an extensive body of material relating to Europe, in the form of documentary evidence of the history of the glaciers, their portrayal in paintings and maps, and measurements made by scientists and others, wit
  

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Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Icelandic glaciers and sea ice
13
Chapter 3 Scandinavia
64
Chapter 4 The massif of Mont Blanc
108
Chapter 5 The Little Ice Age in the Ötztal eastern Alps
134
Chapter 6 Swiss glacier fluctuations and Little Ice Age weather and climate
166
Chapter 7 The Little Ice Age in Asia
199
Chapter 8 The Little Ice Age in North America and Greenland
231
Chapter 10 The glacial history of the Holocene
297
a consideration of their possible causes
354
Chapter 12 Consequences of the Little Ice Age climatic fluctuation
379
Bibliography
422
Geographical index
482
Source index
488
Subject index
495
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Chapter 9 Glaciers in low latitudes and the southern hemisphere
263

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