Stained Glass, Outdoor Hockey Rinks, and Climate Change
摘要
This chapter gives an overview of two projects by McGill MSc students dealing with the impacts of climate change. In the first project, the research shows that as the climate in Europe shifted from the medieval warm and sunny period to the cool and cloudy Little Ice AgeLittle Ice Age period, the stained glass in northwestern European churchesEuropean churches changed from dark colors to paler or grisaille (clear) colors. In the second project, reflecting a Canada-wide passion for ice hockey, the length of the outdoor skating season in large parts of Canada is shown to have shortened by up to two weeks over the past half century in response to global warming. Assuming this warming trend continues, our cherished backyard hockey rinks will disappear in a few decades, and future Canadian hockey players will have to get their start on artificial ice rinks.