Frozen Rivers and canals in Northern Europe during the Little Ice Age wiped out cereal production in Iceland and caused famine in France, Norway and Sweden.
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The slow climate slide continues into the next glacial advance
J.H. Walker
Frozen Rivers and canals in Northern Europe during the Little Ice Age wiped out cereal production in Iceland and caused famine in France, Norway and Sweden. Colder winters meant denser wood, which contributed to the superior tone of the Stradivarius violin.
The starting Wolf Grand Solar Minimum not only caused famine by wiping out cereal production in Iceland and horse livestock, but also prevented normal fishing from taking place because of months of massive sea ice around Iceland.
The same winter ice conditions affected Greenland far more savagely, ending all farming practices, decimating the population, and forcing the survivors to flee southwestwards to Newfoundland, leaving Greenland the province of the Inuit and polar bears.
Greenland has not returned to its Medieval Warm Period capability of supporting Icelandic farming for the last 900 years. The slow climate slide continues into the next glacial advance coming to the Northern Hemisphere in a not too far away horizon.
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