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Little Ice Age en · PROPN

Etymology

From little + ice age, coined by Dutch-American topographer and geologist François E. Matthes in 1939.

Meanings

1. A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850.
   • 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. 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
   • 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. [2021 July 5, Alice Bell, “Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)”, in The Guardian, retrieved 05 Jul 2021:

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LIA

Translations (1)

bg Ма́лък ле́дников перио́д (period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period)