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The 17th century was a period of extraordinarily cold weather, often dubbed the "Little Ice Age". We have plenty of records of cold temperatures themselves, but do we have any of people noticing the *average* temperature going down year by year?

by /u/ghost_of_the_ages in /r/AskHistorians

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