Volcanic eruptions and Pink Floyd: Inside Europe’s ‘Little Ice Age’ mystery

Courier Tribune ^ | 4-5-2023 | Mark Waghorn

[Revel]

With all that Co2 it should have gotten warmer- Not colder. Or so they tell us.

[Article10]

What about the ManBearPig?

[njslim]

Correlation between sunspots and colder climate was made early in 20th by Anglo-Irish astronomer E W Maunder early in 20th cent by examining records of sunspots kept by Armagh university of the late 18th to 20th cent

[norwaypinesavage]

"Europe's mysterious "Little Ice Age" has been traced back to a massive volcanic eruption in Indonesia - thanks to Pink Floyd. It lasted centuries."

Pink Floid, Guillet, and the Courier Tribune all must be smoking the same stuff. volcanoes and their eruptions don't spew aerosols that last for centuries. The "Little Ice Age correlates far better with Sunspots. Not that the sun might influence the climate just a little.

[SunkenCiv]

[snip] A study - inspired by the 70s rock legends' Dark Side of the Moon - now shows it was triggered by a catastrophic eruption in 1257. The evidence comes from historical observations of lunar eclipses between 1100 and 1300 - recorded by monks. [/snip]

Goin' 'round the bend ping.

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[zeugma]

They told us it was the absence of sunspots and called it the Maunder Minimum.

Could be a combination. The Chinese have really good records of sunspot activity going back centuries.

[Paal Gulli]

"They told us it was the absence of sunspots and called it the Maunder Minimum."

Not likely, seeing as how the Maunder Minimum wasn't observed until three centuries after the Little Ice Age began.

The Spörer Minimum occurred centuries before the invention of the telescope but was determined through analysis of tree growth rings.

[JohnnyP]

It was a joke.