Talk:Little Ice Age

Freudian melting pot
Communities often lashed out via violent crimes, including robbery and murder.

This sentence is unciteable. You might find a citation for gang rape, but you won't find a citation for the communal id charged with theft over. &mdash; MaxEnt 15:44, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

Biased chart
What a biased chart you have. Medieval warm period colder than years before? :) It was well written in ClimateGate emails that they make an additional work to lower the temperatures in "Medieval warm period", so current GW would more alarming. Biased chart, biased science. 95.103.178.167 (talk) 07:26, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
 * The so-called climategate "conspiracy" was proven in multiple studies to have involved no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. — RCraig09 (talk) 13:30, 10 May 2023 (UTC)

Misplaced chart.
It seems rather inappropriate for the introduction to have a chart asserting what the little ice age is not, rather than some sort of graphic describing what the little ice age is. 2600:4040:B506:FC00:909F:AF32:58:AE52 (talk) 00:24, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The chart (you're apparently referring to this chart), shows what the LIA was. The chart's caption explains away a common misperception (what the LIA was not). — RCraig09 (talk) 03:58, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

The invention of reliable weather thermometers
It is common knowledge that during most of the era refered to as The Little Ice Age, that weather thermometers did not exist. It wasn't until 1724 that Gabriel Fahrenheit invented a thermometer, using mercury and inscribed sufficient to maintain temperature records from diverse locations.

So if attempting to prove or disprove "Climate Change" in the modern era, researchers do not have an accurate record of "normal" or mean temperatures as they existed before the advent of "The Little Ice Age". Physical evidence in various forms that all require interpretation, but not approaching the accuracy of data used in the modern era to measure and make temperature charts previous to those recorded in Central England. So it is impossible to prove just how much warmer it was before the cooling took place.Bicketcharge (talk) 03:35, 13 August 2023 (UTC)
 * Scientists use indirect temperature measurements like ice cores, corals and tree rings, called proxies, for periods before instrumental temperature records became available. See the scientific sourcing provided at File:Common Era Temperature.svg. Talk Pages are used to suggest specific changes or additions to articles, provided the changes or additions are reliably sourced. — RCraig09 (talk) 03:53, 13 August 2023 (UTC)

Thermometers
Were the thermometers is use at the time made with mercury ? Kensington-Philly (talk) 18:19, 6 September 2023 (UTC)


 * To answer your question, No Thermometers during thid time period weren't made with Mercury, as Mercury wouldn't be used in Thermometers until the late 17th and early 18th century. according to the National library of Medicine, Thermometers during this time period were made in the same method in which a bulb and tube, but the bulb was filled with Alcohol. Historysgrad224 (talk) 21:41, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

The article says ice age, not the "Little Ice Age" text, but I think it should say glacial period
The Earth is in a 2.56 million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation. The ice age is composed of about 90,000 year glacial periods that alternate with about 10,000 year interglacial periods, such as the current Holocene interglacial period that has in effect for the past 11,700 years. If something is in the 2.56 million-year time frame it is either in a glacial period or an interglacial period. For the Quaternary Glaciation to end all natural ice on Earth will have to melt. Scvblwxq (talk) 03:12, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Of the 176 uses of "Ice Age" in the article, the first 30 (all I could be bothered to check) all say "Little Ice Age" except the 2nd sentence, which reads "It was not a true ice age of global extent", so I think your "The article says ice age, not the "Little Ice Age" text [?]" is just incorrect (as well as ungrammatical and unclear). "Little Ice Age" is an established term, used by many sources, and I suspect predating the contemporary terminology. Johnbod (talk) 04:57, 1 February 2024 (UTC)