Medieval Warm Period

American  

noun

1. the time, c900–1400, during which warmer temperatures existed in many parts of the world. MWP

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Medieval Warm Period Scientific  

/ mē′dē-ē′vəl,mĕd′ē-,mĭ-dē′vəl /

1. The period from about 1000 to 1400 in which global temperatures are thought to have been a few degrees warmer than those of the preceding and following periods. The climatic effects of this period were confined primarily to Europe and North America. The period following the Medieval Warm Period is known as the Little Ice Age.

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Example Sentences

Researchers also used these charred chunks of wood to open a window into local climate conditions during Europe’s Medieval Warm Period, which lasted from approximately 950 to 1250 C.E.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 5, 2024

Between approximately 1160 and 1400, a period known as the Medieval Warm Period, about 60% of the pollen records came from northern forest species such as pine, spruce, and fir.

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024

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.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

The Europeans arrived in Greenland during the so-called Medieval Warm Period, and they vanished not long after the onset of the Little Ice Age.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

Deming has said that bullying climate scientists have tried to force him to "get rid of that Medieval Warm Period."

From The Verge • Dec. 22, 2014