“…56 However, twenty-first century climate scientists relying on ice core samples and tree rings have developed computer models which show how throughout the eighteenth century "the Northern Hemisphere was subject to protracted winters and abbreviated, cool, and wet summers characteristic of the 'Little Ice Age'." 57 Throughout the second half of the eighteenth century, British imperial agents "described the weather in New England and Nova Scotia as comparatively harsh, excessive, extreme, intense, rigorous, bitter and severe." 58 Indeed, Nova "The hardships he labours under… in that severe climate" | 10…”