Bert Robbins wrote:
What happened 400 years ago to cause the world to cool off? And, what
caused the temperature to get to the same "high" level it is today in
the preceding years? I don't remember anybody painting a picture of
their gas sucking pig of a donkey cart on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/22/D8IDB6500.html

Maritime news from 1602:

1602
Sir Walter Raleigh sent Samuel Mace of Weymouth on a voyage to Virginia
(North Carolina) to gather plant materials and to search for survivors
of the Lost Colony.

Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, Capt. Bartholomew Gilbert, Capt. Gabriel
Archer, and others sent on voyage to New England coast.

Nova Scotia visited regularly by English traders.


Other news from 1602:

Hamlet and Twelfth Night performed at Globe Theater

Scottish King James the VI assumes the English as well as the Scottish
Thrones and assumes the name James I.

Other "boaty" stuff: The Spanish explore the coast of California.