The Little Ice Age likely resulted from

A) changes in Earth's orbital shape (eccentricity).
B) the Pleistocene megafauna extinction.
C) a cooling of the Gulf Stream from rapid glacial melt in Greenland.
D) changes in Earth's axial tilt (obliquity).
E) volcanic activity and multiyear changes in global circulation.


E

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