Only in the last decade have climatologists developed an accurate picture of yearly climate conditions in historical times. This development confirmed a long-st

First scholarly work devoted to the Little Ice Age, that period from 1600 to about 1850 when the glaciers retreated.--Blurb.

"The Complete Ice Age" covers a critical period in Earth's--and humanity's--history, from two million years ago to the present day. The authors explain how new

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