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1 Why the Little Ice Age Happened
While he cause of KBhHIST201LittleIceAge The Little Ice Age is still unknown, there are some theories as to how this happened…
1.1 Maunder Minimum
- Decreased sun spots causes less sun energy output
- Hence, the earth is cooled
1.2 Volcano
- Earlier in the period, there had been volcanic activity
- Filipino volcanoes thought to deposit smoke, in which water droplets could have cooled the earth for ~3yrs
1.3 Slash-and-burn theory
- Native Americans had a habit of clearing — whether through burning or slashing — forestland that could be used for farming. This reduces forests, so more \(CO_2\) could be in the air
- The Europeans' influence of NA habit causes less of this to happen, making it be rather more Carbon Dioxide in the air