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Medieval Warm Period

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Medieval Warm Period
n.
The period from about 1000 to 1400 in which global temperatures are thought to have been a few degrees warmer than those of the preceding and following periods. The climatic effects of this period were confined primarily to Europe and North America. Also called Medieval Warm Epoch.
Medieval Warm Period  (md-vl, md-, m-dvl)
The period from about 1000 to 1400 in which global temperatures are thought to have been a few degrees warmer than those of the preceding and following periods. The climatic effects of this period were confined primarily to Europe and North America. The period following the Medieval Warm Period is known as the Little Ice Age.
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If the medieval warm period may be attributable to causes other than greenhouse gas concentrations, that does not mean that those causes are the only ones that can give rise to warming, and it is surely illogical to assume that to be the case, as Mr McNally appears to do, dismissing the judgement of the world's scientific community.
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