Little Ice Age

English

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Little Ice Age

1. A period of cooling (not a true ice age) that followed the Medieval Warm Period and continued from about 1300 to about 1850.

   Synonym: LIA

   • 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:

     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.

   • [2021 July 5, Alice Bell, “Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)”, in The Guardian‎^[1], retrieved 2021-07-05:

     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.]

Further reading

• Little Ice Age on Wikipedia.Wikipedia