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Originally Posted by eeyore  where does it say that the little ice age didnt happen ? - what it says is that the meadival warm period wasnt as warm as some climate sceptics say.
Anyway I'm not going to be dragged into yet another fruitless debate - we have at least three threads running for this argument and it would be a shame to hijack this one into being a fourth. |
I quite agree - shame that someone has hijacked the thread with the same old reiteration of arguments with little or no new insights. I'm sure lots of you have found it already but there is quite a nice website that gives a very useful refutation of the supposed problems of the little ice age and medieval warm period and many other discussions of climate change:
RealClimate
To summarise the ideas very simplistically I think this is what they say - the little ice age and medieval warm periods were local or regional phenomena and were not reflected in the overall global temperatures as determined by many of the proxy temperature records (data from sea bed cores and the like).