The Little Ice Age was featured on The History Channel last week and the theory THC presented was the exact opposite. The documentary said that the Little Ice Age caused the Black Plague because the temperature decrease in Europe forced people and disease-carrying rats indoors to escape the cold. According to THC, the Little Ice Age didn't end until the mid-19th century. It was still going on in the 1700s and accounted for the problems Washington had crossing the Delaware River. Normally there are not ice flows in the river, but there were then. Very interesting documentary, which, as I understood it, posited that there are always cyclical fluctuations in temperature :. all the global warming hype is just that.
I enjoyed it too.
Most of the great unwashed are hooked on the thermostat and the electric plug.
Most don't know where electricity comes from and few care.
It was an excellent program. The Ice Age really affected a lot of history that we learn. Yes, there are cyclical variations. FWIU, warming periods precede ice ages. We should be preparing for the effects of lower temperatures in the future rather than the opposite.