“The Maunder Minimum (also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum) is the name used for the period starting in about 1645 and continuing to about 1715 when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.
It caused London’s River Thames to freeze over, and ‘frost fairs’ became popular.”
Never happened...burn those books...
Never happened...burn those books...
Ha...and the museums in London and Amsterdam with multi million $ value paintings from the period....
check out the thisckness of the ice:
and in Amsterdam: