Tag: Brian Fagan

A dossier on a 550-year European cold snap

A dossier on a 550-year European cold snap compiled from tree rings, ice cores, and the accounts of country clergymen and gentlemen scientists. Do we make the weather, or does it make us? Because the Arctic ice pack receded during the Medieval Warm Period, Fagan writes, the Vikings invaded Europe from England to Tuscany and…

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Do we make the weather, or does it make us?

  A dossier on a 550-year European cold snap compiled from tree rings, ice cores, and the accounts of country clergymen and gentlemen scientists. Do we make the weather, or does it make us? Because the Arctic ice pack receded during the Medieval Warm Period, Fagan writes, the Vikings invaded Europe from England to Tuscany…

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Curious scientists have the most fun.

A dossier on a 550-year European cold snap compiled from tree rings, ice cores, and the accounts of country clergymen and gentlemen scientists. Do we make the weather, or does it make us? Because the Arctic ice pack receded during the preceding Medieval Warm Period, Fagan writes, the Vikings invaded Europe from England to Tuscany…

Read more Curious scientists have the most fun.