This article may be confusing
to readers who don’t know the quantitative difference between an ice age and a little ice age,
as referred to in the story. During the last ice age, the average cooling in the Northern
Hemisphere was about 5C, but the cooling during the last little ice age was only about 0.2C.
During the last little ice age, montane glaciers advanced in both hemispheres.
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