Europe's chill linked to disease

According to a theory on BBC news today, the little ice age was triggered by the black death. Apparently lots of people died so land wasn't cultivated so much so there were more trees which mopped up the CO2.

Sounds pretty daft to me, but then I am not a paeloclimatologist. :-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4755328.stm
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