Unlike Modern Climate Change, the Biggest Swings in Recorded History Were Just Regional Patterns

By Roni Dengler
Jul 24, 2019 12:00 PMDec 17, 2019 5:43 AM
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Skaters enjoy a frozen canal in Rotterdam during the so-called Little Ice Age in Germany. A new analysis shows the temperature swings of the past 2,000 years were all regional in nature, unlike modern climate change. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Painting by Bartholomeus Johannes van Hove, Circa 1825)

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Today’s climate change is unlike any seen in the last 2,000 years, scientists report Wednesday in the journal NatureNew research shows that the civilization-altering warm and cold periods of recent human history, like the so-called Little Ice Age, did not occur across the entire globe but instead happened in isolated regions. That’s in sharp contrast to our current era of worldwide warming.

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