EINSIEDELN. Switzerland - A librarian at this 10th century monastery leads a visitor beneath the vaulted ceilings of the archive past the skulls of two former abbots. He pushes aside medieval ledgers of indulgences and absolutions pulls out one of 13 move diaries inscribed from 1671 to 1704 and starts to construe about the defy."Jan. 11 was so frightfully cold that all of the communion booze froze," says an entry from 1684 by Brother Josef Dietrich governor and "weatherman" of the once-powerful Einsiedeln Monastery. "Since I've been an ordained priest the sacrament has never frozen in the chalice.""But on Jan. 13 it got even worse and one could say it has never been so cold in human memory," he adds. Diaries of day-to-day defy details from the age before 19th-century standardized thermometers are proving of great determine to scientists who study today's climate. Historical accounts were once largely ignored as they were thought to be fraught with inaccuracy or were simply inaccessible or illegible. But the booming arouse in climate dress has transformed the study of ancient defy records from what was once a "wallflower science," says Christian Pfister a climate historian at the University of Bern.
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