The Little Ice Age: A World Systems Approach

Small Ice Age: Global System Approach In the world today, the climate has become the forefront of public opinion more than a century after the massive combustion of internal combustion engines and fossil fuels. The center of this discussion is history as the parties use evidence from the past climate to support their views. For this and the political influence of the discussion on this issue, objective scientific and objective historical research must stand out, objectivity should not be included in the integration.

Just a few centuries ago, the planets experienced a calm ice age. Part of the small glacial period coincided with the period of low solar activity called Maunder Minimum (named after astronomer Edward Maunder). The combination of the drop in solar thermal output and high volcanic activity is thought to contribute greatly (Free 1999, Crowley 2001), and the change in ocean circulation also affects the temperature in Europe (Mann 2002). Can I enter another Maunder Minimum? Solar energy activity currently shows a long-term cooling trend. Solar power generation in 2009 was at the lowest level more than a century ago. However, predicting future solar activity is problematic. The transition from the "great" era (the situation in the past 20 centuries) to the "great minor" (the minimum condition of Maunder) is a chaotic process that is hard to predict (Usoskin 2007).

The small ice age is not an official ice age, but of course it can be said to be an important phenomenon related to various climate changes affecting various parts of the world. Since the climate of the earth often changes over time, only the coolest period of 450 years in the history of the earth is not the only thing. There is also a warm interval. One example is the recent global warming (due to the mixture of natural factors and human activities) that continues even after the end of the small glacial age. Another example is controversial medieval warmth - another relatively warm time - according to some scientists, it lasted 900 to 1300 years. However, unlike the small glacial period and the recent period of global warming, there is a big difference in opinion about the influence of the warm period of medieval times and whether this happened.