A cheery BBC story for this cold Monday morning:
Europe’s “Little Ice Age” may have been triggered by the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study.
Pollen and leaf data support the idea that millions of trees sprang up on abandoned farmland, soaking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
This would have had the effect of cooling the climate, a team from Utrecht University, Netherlands, says.
Survive the plague, die of cold (yes, yes, I know it took a while for the trees to grow and make it cold, so it wasn’t exactly the same people affected). Sometimes nature just has it in for your species.