War of the Whales: Climate Change, Weather and Arctic Conflict in the Early Seventeenth Century

• Published in: Environment and History
• Main Author: Degroot, Dagomar
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Liverpool University Press 2020
• Subjects: Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Environmental Science (miscellaneous); History; Geography, Planning and Development; Arctic; Svalbard; Norway; North Pole; Jan Mayen; Climate change; Sea ice; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734019x15463432086801; https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/whp/eh/2020/00000026/00000004/art00007

Abstract Beginning in 1580, average annual temperatures across the Arctic cooled amid the regional onset of the 'Grindelwald Fluctuation', a particularly cold but volatile period in the Little Ice Age. By contributing to socioeconomic trends that raised the cost of vegetable oils, climatic...