BIOL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Little Ice Age, Bark Beetle, Leif Erikson
18 Jun 2017
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Even though many countries in the developing world are feeling the effects of climate change the effects are felt around the world. In canada, the mountain bark beetle is devastating pine forests in the province of british. Even though we had a cool summer in southern ontario, According to nasa giss, august 2014 was unofficially the warmest august on record globally for land/ocean combined. Always ask about time frame when discussing climate and global warming. 50 years great lakes levels the lowest since 1964 . 80 years the dirty thirties and the dust bowl on the prairies. 200 years dickensian winter (born 1812, wrote a christmas carol in 1838. There were several severe winters during this time, with snow and the thames river freezing) Little ice age in europe 1350 to 1850. Doesn"t seem big but in terms of climate and long term it does. 400 years founding of quebec city = europeans in what was to become canada.
