February 22, 2012

The Change of Human Population Due to Weather

Weather has a huge impact of the way we live, it will change what we do, our moods and has had a massive part in the history of humans. They has been massive changes in the human population due to weather, putting climatic changes aside, extreme weather events have been historical and lowered the population scale dramatically.

Weather can cause loss of food (this is called famine) and two major examples of this are:

The Little ice age, this took place way back in the 1690s; a massive loss of crops was caused. Another was in Finland between 1696-1697, this famine was so bad that Finland had one-third of its population die!