UQx DENIAL101x 4.2.2.1 The Little Ice Age
Channel: UQx Denial101x Making Sense of Climate Science Denial
Date: 2015-05-19

In this lecture, Andy Skuce explains what the so-called “little ice age” was and what caused it. Most importantly, natural factors coming out of the little ice age cannot explain our current global warming. A recent paper “Frost fairs, sunspots and the Little Ice Age” clarifies the relationships between solar activity and ice ages: https://academic.oup.com/astrogeo/article/58/2/2.17/3074082/Frost-fairs-sunspots-and-the-Little-Ice-AgeSOLAR 

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