Global warming
Rapid climatic shifts
Cold winters and easterly winds
Heavy spring and early summer rains
Atlantic storms
Droughts
Summer heat waves
The famine
Deforest
Storminess increasing
Colder, much wetter weather
The cold decades of the late sixteenth century
develop the offshore fishing boats adapted to a colder and stormier
A gradual agricultural revolution in northern Europe
The revolution involved intensive commercial farming
Some countries self-sufficient