Climate Change!

How many people do you know that can  truly say that they have heard of either 1.) The Medieval Global Temperature Optimum or 2.) The Little Ice Age? I for one am not familiar with them, but I happened to do a little research.

The Medieval Global Temperature Optimum, which is also known as the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), was a time where the North Atlantic region of the World was experiencing a rather warm climate which also seemed to be related to other climate changes around the world. It is said to have lasted from about 950 AD to 1250 AD. Following this event, was what came to be known as The Little Ice Age. It wasn't really a true ice age, but just a period of cooling that followed the MWP. This lasted from about the 1300's to the 1900's. During this time, there were different periods of the cold climate change.