Climate Change in the Recent Past Selected Climate Events from Historical Records Executive Summary

• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Freed; Greenland; Iceland
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.397.5136; http://www.fcpp.org/pdf/FB050ClimateChangeintheRecentPastApr52007.pdf

Rapid climate change is not an unusual phenomenon in our planet’s history. Warmer periods have generally been better for people than cooler ones. During the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), large groups of Norwegians settled in Iceland and Greenland. The MWP allowed European farmers to cultivate crops mu...