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The European Climate Megadrought – Which Happened 482 Years Ago
10 hours ago Eric Worrall 41 Comments
Essay by Eric Worrall

h/t JoNova, Patty Janson; A brutal European megadrought in 1540, during the little ice age, brings context to attempts to link the current European heatwave to global warming.

Europe’s biggest natural disaster

mirror online,by Axel Bojanowski
Updated on 07/15/2014

Eleven months of hardly any rain and extreme heat: More than 300 chronicles from all over Europe reveal the gruesome details of a gigantic catastrophe in 1540. And they show that the disaster can happen again.

The year 1539 ended with a stormy, mild westerly wind. It rained a lot in December, people fled to their homes. Little did they know how valuable the precipitation was soon to become. 

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