Note the extent of the freeze >During the Great Winter of 1683 /...

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    Note the extent of the freeze >

    During the Great Winter of 1683 / 84, where even the seas of southern Britain were frozen solid for up to two miles from shore,
    the most famous frost fair was held: The Blanket Fair. The famous English writer and diariest John Evelyn described it in extensive detail, writing:

    Coaches plied from Westminster to the Temple, and from several other staires to and fro, as in the streetes, sliding with skeetes, a bull-baiting, horse and coach races, puppet plays and interludes, cookes, tipling and other lewd places, so that it seemed a bacchanalian triumph or carnival on the water, whilst it was a severe judgement on the land, the trees not onely splitting as if lightning-struck, but men and cattle perishing in divers[e] places, and the very seas so lock’d up with ice, that no vessels could stir out or come in.

    Even kings and queens would join in the festivities, with King Charles reportedly enjoying a spitroasted ox at this very fair.

    The warming started from 1800 - kind of kills the carbon dioxide narrative but we have been telling you that for a while.

 
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