AGW = ‘Medieval witch-hunters’: ‘In the Dark Ages, before man enlightened himself, witches were frequently hunted & burned on the basis that they were causing climate change’
During the Witch-hunting mania in Europe between the 15th and 17th centuries...large-scale persecutions were clearly linked to years of extreme hardship...' So during the Little Ice Age, there was an upsurge in witch-hunting. There was another outburst in 1628, described by historians as 'the year without a summer'...When the "climate stayed unfavourable or 'unnatural' the demand for persecutions persisted'