Editing Little Ice Age (section)

==== The Black Death in Europe ====
The [[Black Death]] is estimated to have killed 30% to 60% of the [[demographics of Europe|European population]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YiHHnV08ebkC&pg=PA21|title=A pest in the land: new world epidemics in a global perspective|last=Austin Alchon|first=Suzanne|publisher=University of New Mexico Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-8263-2871-7|page=21}}</ref> In total, the plague may have reduced the world population from an estimated 475 million to 350–375 million in the 14th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/international-programs/historical-est-worldpop.html|title=Historical Estimates of World Population|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=28 April 2019}}</ref> It took 200 years for the world population to recover to its previous level.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Jay|first=Peter|date=17 July 2000|title=A Distant Mirror|url=http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2050585,00.html|journal=TIME Europe|volume=156|issue=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725005418/http://www.time.com/time/europe/magazine/2000/0717/peter.html|archive-date=25 July 2008|url-status=dead|access-date=25 January 2018}}</ref> [[William Ruddiman]] ''et al.'' proposed that those large population reductions in Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East caused a decrease in agricultural activity that allowed [[reforestation]] to cause additional [[carbon dioxide removal|carbon dioxide uptake]] from the atmosphere, leading to LIA cooling.<ref name=Holocene_20110801/>