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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The period from 1400 to 1800, characterized by expansion of mountain glaciers and cooling of global temperatures, especially in the Alps, Scandinavia, Iceland, and Alaska.
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Jean Grove, The Little Ice Age Routledge, 1988, a work of scholarship; Brian Fagan, Little Ice Age, is a lively essay; annual climate series have been constructed by Hal Fritts at the University of Arizona.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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Jean Grove, The Little Ice Age Routledge, 1988, a work of scholarship; Brian Fagan, Little Ice Age, is a lively essay; annual climate series have been constructed by Hal Fritts at the University of Arizona.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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His prediction for a soon to arrive Little Ice Age is backed by some Russian Scientists, and others:
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The panel claimed that the 20th century was warmer than the 17th, 18th, and 19th century, i.e. than the last parts of Little Ice Age.
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When the NAS panel said that Mann was partly correct, in that the world had definitely warmed in the past 400 years as Earth exited the Little Ice Age, it was as disingenuous as saying that this morning was a lot brighter than last night.
Whitfield SubCommittee: Witnesses to be questioned « Climate Audit 2006
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We know very well that Alpine glaciers mainly formed during Little Ice Age, and that almost none of it just small parts of nowadays major glaciers existed during Medieval Warm Period or during the rise of Roman Empire.
Archaeological Finds in Retreating Swiss Glacier « Climate Audit 2005
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Well, this is why the Little Ice Age is called in this way.
The Reference Frame 2010
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