Yes, It was Warmer Back Then

Yes, the Medieval Warm Period was warmer than the modern period and it was global (and probably bounced around about as much as modern climate, despite being warmer. )

A peer-reviewed study documents the extremely warm temperatures of the Medieval Period that occurred in the California Sierra Nevada range. Scientists, working with dead tree trunks located above the current treeline, affirm California’s Medieval extreme warm temperature history, which still remains unprecedented.

The California Medieval Warming Remains Unprecedented: 3.0°C Hotter Than Modern Global Warming

The ideal, of course, would be for the world to be a couple of degrees warmer, for CO2 levels to be significantly higher, and for market forces to cause Mr. Gore’s” investments” to decline greatly in value.

The MWP Actually Was Warmer

Never mind that hundreds of peer-reviewed papers have shown that the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) was warmer than the present period, and word-wide, certain groups of people have scoffed at the idea that there is nothing unusual about modern times, climate-wise.

Now, even Jones, Briffa, and other unimpeachable sources say that it was warmer back then (at least in Greenland.) See: The Medieval Warm Period in Greenland

It Was Warmer Back Then

The Medieval Warm Period – A global Phenomenon

Stuff from my notes:

• CO2 Science’s Medieval Warm Period Project – Our Medieval Warm Period Project is an ongoing effort to document the magnitude and spatial and temporal extent of a significant period of warmth that occurred approximately one thousand years ago. Home
• Yes, it was warmer back then
• A graph
• Storm data from NZ
• Late Holocene sea-surface temperature and precipitation variability in northern Patagonia, Chile – Chilean paper, shows MWP
• Little Ice and and the Year Without a Summer (2003)
• It was witches that done it (serious paper) – This paper explores the possibility that the witchcraft trials are a large-scale example of violence and scapegoating prompted by a deterioration in economic conditions. In this case, the downturn was brought on by a decrease in temperature and resulting food shortages. The most active period of the witchcraft trials coincides with a period of lower than average temperature known to climatologists as the “little ice age.”
• Graph showing number of studies on MWP Vs today’s temps
• Paper: Sediment recorod shows MWP
• Critter measurements show MWP
• Mann and Company Still Malign the Medieval Warm Period
• JoNova finds the MWP
• More
• Atlantic Ocean Sediments Confirm Roman & Medieval Periods Warmer, Peer-Reviewed Research Determines
• Global Temps from 2500BC to 2040 AD