Medieval Warm Period
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Medieval Warm Period
A time of warm climate in the North Atlantic region that may have been related to other climate events around the world during that time, and which lasted from about 950 to 1250.
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Global temperature records taken from ice cores, tree rings, and lake deposits, have shown that, taken globally, the Earth may have been slightly cooler (by 0.03 degrees Celsius) during the 'Medieval Warm Period' than in the early and mid-20th century.
The oxygen isotopes from the ice caps suggested that the Medieval Warm Period had caused a relatively milder climate in Greenland, lasting from roughly 800 to 1200.
This era coincided with the Medieval Warm Period (800–1300) and stopped with the start of the Little Ice Age (about 1250–1850).
No one can really tell if that was higher or lower than the Medieval Warm Period, or whether that would be a benefit anyway even if it did happen.
Wildfires were not part of the recent memory of the Kuikuro, but archaeologists have unearthed evidence of strategies they used to control wildfires during the Medieval Warm Period, early in the last millennium.