What do you think the buzz was during the Medieval Warm Period?

Question

From the 10th century thru the 14th century the world went thru a global warming period. Ice sheets that had been around for ages disappeared. Greenland became a lush green island. The climate changed and weather patterns shifted on a global scale.
What did medieval mankind do the end this 400 year period of warmer weather?

ArgleBargleWoogleBoo:
lol. I resemble that remark. :-)

Answer 1

I refuse to match wits with an unarmed.... person.

Answer 2

No life like man or woman denies that the planet is going by potential of obviously happening cooling and warming cycles. notwithstanding, there's a large difference between localized and international transformations. interior the case of MWP, there is not any data to point this became some thing except a localized phenomenon. that's apparent by noting that glaciers which have existed for one thousand's of years weren't affected in this time. compared, those similar glaciers (jointly with those interior the Andes and Himalayas) are literally melting at a short cost. I are conscious of it would outstanding and easy if climatic transformations will be defined in simplistic words. in reality that there are countless variables that would want to and do impression cooling and warming.

Answer 3

You forget to point out that during medievel times, they burned many witches at the stake, and they had to cook and heat their huts by burning wood. The massive CO2 emissions from this, coupled with the deforrestization of Europe was enough to "shock" mother earth into a miniature global warming period. Most people don't know that prior to then, the polar bears actually lived as far south as the Black Sea.
I believe this is true because I read it on the internet

Answer 4

you know.. I wonder how many people died because they had no clue what was going on.. from starvation and bad weather... in different parts of the world.. thank goodness we have the technology to prepare for such events in todays world wouldn't you say?

P.S. La Nina is forming.. that means it's going to be a heavy hurricane year.. I hope you don't live on the Gulf or Atlantic.

Answer 5

They grew fine vineyards and wine in Iceland and England. They had no idea it was warmer or colder or that global warming was occurring. They didn't even know there was a "globe" then.

Answer 6

No one ever said there aren't natural variations in temperature, doesn't mean that manmade ones don't matter.

To paraphrase someone who posted a few days ago, your logic would dictate that we shouldn't worry about arsonists because lightning sometimes starts fires.

To answer your question it seems like life was crappy enough during the middle ages so those poor knaves deserved a relatively balmy climate.

Answer 7

Actually, Europe went through a "Little Ice Age" during this time period.

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/little_ice_age.html
http://www.grisda.org/origins/10051.htm
http://jrscience.wcp.muohio.edu/Weather/PaperProposalArticles/TheLittleIceAgewasitbigen.html
http://www-earth.usc.edu/geol150/evolution/images/littleiceage/LittleIceAge.htm
http://store.aetv.com/html/product/index.jhtml?id=74653

Answer 8

Ohhhhhh that's why they the ice covered one Greenland and the green one Iceland. I get it now.

Only if they had Al Gorf instead of us.

Answer 9

They are doing now, what they were doing then, going about thier daily lives!

They didnt care a hoot that global warming was happening, nor, would they have thought that they were responsible for it.

I wish you well...

Jesse

Answer 10

the buzz was the people had sinned and Earth is turning into hell.

Amen.