Climatology

Chapter 8

What was the last colder period? When was the little ice age?

last colder period: Younger Dyras period, 12.000-11.000 years ago 
might have been caused by the shutdown of the NATC

Freshwater outflow from Hudson Bay in the Labrador sea might have caused the colder time 8.000 years ago

 
little ice age: 1550-1700; Maunder Minimum (solar variabilty)

Diskussion