Wayne Shepheard has rerecorded his Legacy Family Tree Webinars talk Genealogy and the Little Ice Age. He discusses the importance of understanding the Little Ice Age (1300-1850 AD) in genealogical research. The presentation includes:
The Little Ice Age’s impact on climate and environment:
Effects on human populations
Historical and genealogical implications
Useful information sources for genealogists.
However, at 2:55, he claims that during the warm periods of the last 10,000 years, temperatures were much higher than today. That’s the view of some climate skeptics but at variance with the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment.
However, that should not detract from Wayne’s analysis of climate impacts during the Little Ice Age.