What does LIA stand for?

Little Ice Age

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Glaciers in both the tropics and North Atlantic region reached their most recent maximum extents during the so-called Little Ice Age, about 1650 AD to 1850 AD, according to the scientists conducting the research.

Climate swings in northern hemisphere linked with changes in tropics

Another Little Ice Age story, presented in one of the book's insets, relates climate change to the special sound of Stradivarius violins.

Funky facts!

800 to 1300 and was followed by the Little Ice Age.

Maybe now isn't normal

It was the harsh, unstable Dark Ages and the Little Ice Age that broughtbigger storms, untimely frost, widespread famine, plagues and disease.

Global warming? It's natural, say experts; Polar bears are threatened

It was during the cold of the Little Ice Age that Europe had its worst-ever floods and famines.

Fear the next ice age

During the so-called little Ice Age, the Thames froze over regularly.

AND INCIDENTALLY

A new report said in just 50 years Northern Europe could be plunged into a repeat of the Little Ice Age of the 17th to 19th centuries.

THE ICE AGE COMETH; Temperatures to plummet by 2055

Global surface air temperatures during the Little Ice Age may have averaged about I[degrees]C lower than today, but fluctuated markedly over decadal and centennial timescales (Bradley and Jones, 1993).

Environmental change in Garibaldi Provincial Park, Southern Coast ...