[Bon mots]

I was reading an article on Global Pandemics, which had quite a bit written on the huge demographic changes wrought by the plague.

There are some scientists who actually think that one of the reasons for the ‘mini-ice-age’ was the reforestation which followed the plague, when large numbers of people died and stopped cultivating the land.

The plague ravaged Asia and Europe - not long after, the earth experienced what has been called “The Mini Ice-age”.

We all remember the stories of George Washington’s brutal winter at Valley Forge - that’s in the balmy South! During the battle of North Haven, cannons were slid across the ice on Long Island Sound from Long Island to West Haven. LONG ISLAND SOUND WAS FROZEN!

Is that what Gore wants to bring back?

[palmer]

We all remember the stories of George Washington’s brutal winter at Valley Forge - that’s in the balmy South!

The balmy part of Pennsylvania, perhaps. I guess if you were from Maine you would probably consider it in the South.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

The recent History Channel Show about the Little Ice Age said that it was the cause rather than the effect of the Black Death. It is also interesting that the mini Ice Age of the early Dark Ages started just before the terrible plague of the time of the East Roman (Byzantine) Emperor Justinian. Many think that this plague, worse than the Black Death, caused the failure of Justinian to retake the fallen Western Empire. The global warming of the early medieval period, between the two mini Ice Ages, is remembered as ‘The Global Optimum’.