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Old Jan 10, 2020, 12:54 pm
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Hmm, a wikipedia graph without any explanation... really convincing... The black line seems like Trump's hurricane sharpie line

And you fail to address this remark: Interestingly the graphs usually don't go back that far, preferring to start at the end of the Little Ice Age in the 19th century.

Meanwhile:

Temperatures in the GISP2 ice core were about 2°F (1°C) warmer than modern temperatures. The effects of the warm period were particularly evident in Europe where grain crops flourished, alpine tree lines rose, many new cities arose, and the population more than doubled. The Vikings took advantage of the climatic amelioration to colonize Greenland, and wine grapes were grown as far north as England where growing grapes is now not feasible and about 500 km north of present vineyards in France and Germany. Grapes are presently grown in Germany up to elevations of about 560 m, but from about 1100 A.D. to 1300 A.D., vineyards extended up to 780 m, implying temperatures warmer by about 1.0–1.4 °C (Oliver, 1973). Wheat and oats were grown around Trondheim, Norway, suggesting climates about 1 °C warmer than present (Fagan, 2000).

Elsewhere in the world, prolonged droughts affected the southwestern United States and Alaska warmed. Sediments in central Japan record warmer temperatures. Sea surface temperaturesin the Sargasso Sea were approximately 1 °C warmer than today, and the climate in equatorial east Africa was drier from 1000 A.D. to 1270 A.D. An ice core from the eastern Antarctic Peninsula shows warmer temperatures during this period.

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