"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
...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...increasingly desperate to find drinking water. Even a meter and a half under some riverbeds in Switzerland, “not a drop” was found...
An underestimated record breaking event – why summer 1540 was likely warmer than 2003..."
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