Letters From The Time Traveler: Surviving Extreme Weather 2065

Dearest,

Climate change is real and it’s here. But did you know over 300 years ago, our world faced a Little Ice Age? This was before our time but it turned Europe upside down.

From the 1500s to the 1700s, England went through an unusually cold and stormy period, nicknamed the Little Ice Age, which was possibly caused either by reduced activity from the sun, volcanic eruptions or atmospheric changes.

England especially faced wicked floods and unusually cold weather.

So what caused it? According to The New Yorker:

There is evidence that the cooling may have been caused by a decrease in sunspot activity, and therefore in solar radiation, or by an increase in volcanic eruptions. (Though the seismic causality might be the other way around, as Blom explains: changes in oceanic currents could have altered pressures on the continental shelves, which “may in turn have contributed to the increase in volcanic eruptions and earthquakes reported during this period.”) There is evidence, too, that the cooling was to at least some extent man-made. So many people died of disease in the Americas after the arrival of Columbus — fifty-six million.

In Europe, rivers and lakes and harbors froze, leading to phenomena such as the…