Medieval Warm Period

The relationship between drought and global warming is weak, since severe droughts occurred during both the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age.

"Distinctive periods, such as the Medieval Warm Period or the Little Ice Age stand out, but do not show a globally uniform pattern on multi-decadal time scales," said Heinz Wanner of the University of Bern in Switzerland, one of 78 researchers from 24 countries who took part in the project.

The Medieval Warm Period had made it possible for settlers from Norway, Iceland and Denmark to live on hundreds of scattered farms along the protected fjords, where they built dozens of churches and even had bishops.

To what extent, for example, did the Dunbars benefit from the favorable climatic conditions of the so-called "medieval warm period" in the development of the extensive upland pastures, which they controlled in the Lammermuir Hills?

Before the 15th century - in what we call the Medieval Warm Period - the situation was reversed."

We had a Medieval Warm Period from 800 to 1300 when serfs could take their vests off well before May was out because it was a warmer than it is now.

He suggests I research the medieval warm period. I should be most obliged if he would provide me with information on that.

Comparable variations in temperature during the Medieval Warm Period of the 11th to 14th centuries and the Little Ice Age of the 17th to 19th centuries also are thought to have been due to changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation.

* Hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific studies from all over the world indicate a Medieval Warm Period as warm or warmer than present temperatures.