The Little Ice Age and the Coming of the Anthropocene
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13075112 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ji-Hyung Cho (Ewha Womans University Medical Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 2 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-16 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Asian review of World Histories (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2287-965X • E-ISSN: 2287-9811 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.12773/arwh.2014.2.1.001 |
| OpenAlex | W1994305885 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper examines the historical relationship between the Little Ice Age and the Anthropocene, which has not yet been studied. The Little Ice Age is the coldest multi-century period in the Holocene. The reforestation of huge farmlands, abandoned due to pandemics in the Americas, aggravated the cooling weather of the Little Ice Age. It was in the long and severe cold of the Little Ice Age that the transition from renewable energy to non-renewable energy was completed in Britain in the latter part of the eighteenth century, and when the pattern of linear growth in greenhouse gas concentrations was forged in the ecosystems of the Earth. The Little Ice Age forced humans to depend on fossil fuels while the advent of warmer and more stable climate in the Holocene enabled them to start agriculture in an energy revolution 11,000 years ago, thus making the coming of the Anthropocene possible
Anthropocene · Archaeology · Climate change · Climatology · Deforestation (computer science · Earth science · Geography · Glacial period · Greenhouse gas · Holocene · Ice age · Ice core · Little ice age · Physical geography · American Environmental and Regional History · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology
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| Citations per year | 0.3 |
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| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |