Everywhere we look the MWP was just as warm as today. Except of course, Mikey's hockey schtick.

http://www.worldclimatereport.com/in...ature-history/

We constantly hear that the warmest years on record have all occurred in the most recent decades,
and of course, we are led to believe this must be a result of the ongoing buildup of greenhouse
gases. In most places, we have approximately 100 years of reliable temperature records, and we
wonder if the warmth of the most recent decades is unusual, part of some cyclical behavior of the
climate system, or a warm-up on the heels of a cold period at the beginning of the record. A recent
article in Geophysical Research Letters has an intriguing title suggesting a 2,000 year temperature
record now exists for China - we definitely wanted to see these results of this one.

The article was authored by six scientists with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the
State University of New York at Albany, and Germany's Justus-Liebig University in Giessen; the
research was funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of
China, and the United States Department of Energy. In their abstract, Ge et al. tell us "The
analysis also indicates that the warming during the 10-14th centuries in some regions might be
comparable in magnitude to the warming of the last few decades of the 20th century." From the
outset, we knew we would welcome the results from any long-term reconstruction of regional
temperatures.

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