New paper finds North American droughts were far more severe & persistent during the Little Ice Age – Published in Nature
Study 'reconstructs North American drought history over the past 1,000 years and finds droughts during the 12th & 13th centuries [during the Little Ice Age] were far more severe and long-lasting than the relatively mild US drought of 2012.'  - 'Cook and colleagues’ most relevant lesson for the future, however, may be that the one- year pan-continental drought of 2012 was but a glimpse of drought compared with the multi-decadal pan-continental megadroughts that were most common during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.'
