"COMPARED WITH THE climate change we’re experiencing now, the Little Ice Age — which chilled the globe from the 13th to the 19th century — was modest. 
See the source image“The world has already warmed more, relative to mid-20th-century temperature averages, than it cooled in the chilliest stretches of the Little Ice Age,” says Dagomar Degroot, a historian at Georgetown University. 
“And there is much more warming to come.”
Yet in his new book, “The Frigid Golden Age,” Degroot argues that the Little Ice Age has a lot to teach present-day societies about coping with climate change.
The Dutch managed to thrive during a time of cooling that caused great suffering elsewhere.
Degroot, himself born in the Netherlands, explores what made the Dutch so resilient..."
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