Monday, October 1, 2012

So-Called Medieval Warm Period Not So Warm After All

Climate Central: The so-called Medieval Warm Period (MWP), a 400-year span from about 950 to 1220 A.D. when the Vikings colonized Greenland, was relatively balmy by the standards of the past 2,000 years, leading some to argue that the global warming we're now experiencing isn't that big a deal. But a new report in the journal Geology argues that the MWP wasn't all that warm after all -- and certainly not as warm as the climate is today. According to William D'Andrea of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth...

URL: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/so-called-medieval-warm-period-not-so-warm-15064?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+climatecentral%2FdjOO+Climate+Central+-+Full+Feed
Enclosure: http://geology.gsapubs.org/search?qsbooktitlefulltext=d%27andrea&submit=yes&x=13&y=5

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