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Little Ice Age

A serene winter scene depicts snow-covered cabins nestled in a mountainous landscape, with a person walking along a snowy path, capturing the essence of a cold, tranquil environment.

A cooling that affected the North Atlantic and Europe from roughly the fourteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, with the deepest cold in the late 1600s. Glaciers advanced in the Alps, the Thames froze hard enough for frost fairs, and Alpine timber grew slowly and densely. The temperature anomaly was around half a degree below the twentieth-century mean — small in absolute terms, large in its effects.

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