Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly

E. Mann, Michael; Zhang, Zhihua; Rutherford, Scott; S. Bradley, Raymond; K. Hughes, Malcolm; Shindell, Drew; Ammann, Caspar; Faluvegi, Greg; Ni, Fenbiao

doi:10.1126/science.1177303

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Global Signatures and Dynamical Origins of the Little Ice Age and Medieval Climate Anomaly

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Michael E. Mann

Zhihua Zhang

Scott Rutherford

Abstract

Patterns of Change The global climate record of the past 1500 years shows two long intervals of anomalous temperatures before the obvious anthropogenic warming of the 20th century: the warm Medieval Climate Anomaly between roughly 950 and 1250 A.D. and the Little Ice Age between around 1400 and 1700...

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