Practice question · Put in order
Put these climate episodes in chronological order.
- 536 CE dust veil dims the sun for over a year
- Little Ice Age sets in (c. 1300)
- Medieval Climate Anomaly begins (c. 950)
- Little Ice Age ends (c. 1850)
- Seventeenth-century general crisis
- Norse settlement of Greenland flourishes
Hints
- The warm episode precedes the cold one.
- The volcanic year is the most recent of these.
Show the answer
- 536 CE dust veil dims the sun for over a year
- Medieval Climate Anomaly begins (c. 950)
- Norse settlement of Greenland flourishes
- Little Ice Age sets in (c. 1300)
- Seventeenth-century general crisis
- Little Ice Age ends (c. 1850)
Why
The correlations are real and dramatic, which is exactly what makes them dangerous. Two dates lining up is a hypothesis, not a finding.
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