oldtimer said:
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This planet has been experiencing Climate Changes for millions of years even before there were any humans, but what is making the difference now is the fact that instead of those changes taking place over thousands or millions of years they are now happening within a couple of centuries or even within a few decades.
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Actually, a couple of centuries ago we had a "Little Ice Age"
Wikipedia description of the "Little Ice Age" follows:
"The Little Ice Age brought colder winters to parts of Europe and North America.
Farms and villages in the Swiss Alps were destroyed by encroaching glaciers
during the mid-17th century. Canals and rivers in Great Britain and the Netherlands
were frequently frozen deeply enough to support ice skating and winter festivals.
The first River Thames frost fair was in 1608 and the last in 1814; changes to
the bridges and the addition of the Thames Embankment affected the river flow
and depth, greatly diminishing the possibility of further freezes.
Freezing of the Golden Horn and the southern section of the Bosphorus took
place in 1622. In 1658, a Swedish army marched across the Great Belt to Denmark
to attack Copenhagen. The winter of 1794–1795 was particularly harsh: the French
invasion army under Pichegru was able to march on the frozen rivers of the
Netherlands, and the Dutch fleet was locked in the ice in Den Helder harbour.
Sea ice surrounding Iceland extended for miles in every direction, closing
harbors to shipping. The population of Iceland fell by half, but that may have
been caused by skeletal fluorosis after the eruption of Laki in 1783. Iceland also
suffered failures of cereal crops and people moved away from a grain-based diet.
The Norse colonies in Greenland starved and vanished by the early 15th century,
as crops failed and livestock could not be maintained through increasingly harsh
winters. Greenland was largely cut off by ice from 1410 to the 1720s.
According to Elizabeth Ewan and Janay Nugent, "Famines in France 1693–94,
Norway 1695–96 and Sweden 1696–97 claimed roughly 10 percent of the population
of each country. In Estonia and Finland in 1696–97, losses have been estimated
at a fifth and a third of the national populations, respectively."
Viticulture disappeared from some northern regions and storms caused serious
flooding and loss of life. Some of them resulted in permanent loss of large
areas of land from the Danish, German, and Dutch coasts."
