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    the past and the present could be disturbing. The Medieval Warm Period took place between the 10th and 15th centuries. During this era, ice free seas far to the north allowed the Vikings to settle Greenland and sail from Norway, Sweden, Briton and France on a regular basis with no trouble from the cold or sea ice. North America was in the grip of a grave drought. But just how warm was the Medieval Warm Period? To answer

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    have received over the years they still support this preposterous idea. Humans do nothing to contribute to global warming; the irregular climate events are just natural occurrences. These occurrences are no stranger to our history either. (“Global Warm Up”)(“An Inconvenient Truth”) The most recent case of significant warming was between the years 1850 and 1940.

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    the undefended church, killed or captured the helpless monks, then sailed off unmolested into the North Sea, their longship laden with a heavy cargo of priceless treasures and valuable slaves. (Jones 1984) Unfortunately for the terrified people of medieval Europe, this fateful incident was far from the last time that Vikings would set foot on foreign soil. News of the savage desecration of this once peaceful religious center by an unknown race of bloodthirsty pagans proved to be not just a single

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    predictions of the future and assumptions of the past which cannot accurately be determined. Global warming is a part of Earth’s natural process, not because of human pollution. First of all, Earth undergoes what is called interglacial and glacial periods,

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    near the earth's equator; this period occurred from eight hundred and fifty to six hundred and thirty million years ago. The third ice age that occurred was the Andean-Saharan it occurred during the Paleozoic from fout

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    Europe are unable to grow any more. Also, glaciers that had been receding in the warm period of the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s grow and push in to areas that had become habitable during the warm period. If one thinks this is fiction, it has happened before. The last time that a little ice age occurred it began around 1350 and lasted until the late 19th century. Also, this little ice age was preceded by a warm period with similar temperature patterns as today’s warming trends. Most of this data

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    spin a misleading narrative on climate change. Moore begins his argument by stating that global temperature has fluctuated upwards and downwards in the past two thousand years, claiming that the Medieval Warm Period was at least as warm, if not warmer than today. This characterization of the Medieval Warm

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    The Medieval Culture held major advances in art and architect because the artists changed their religious beliefs to a more liberal viewpoint, broke away from their original Byzantium and Romanesque art style, and supported the movement towards greater realism. In the next few paragraphs, I will go into further detail about the advances of art and architect in Medieval times. (n.p.,2017) The History of the Middle Ages starts in England with the Battle of Hastings in 1066 which ended the period classified

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    The Black Death, a cultural or an economic doom of pure coincidence of illness within the Medieval European Society. The Black Death, commonly known plague; left citizens of the medieval European society; wondering whether they were being punished for their sins or if they were cursed, because of the impact the plague left on their society. The spread of the Black Death, the economic and cultural impact, as well as the prevalence of the other outbreaks all entail the affects and how epidemics were

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    gas that warms the atmosphere. • Since pre-industrial times, atmospheric CO2 concentrations have increased from about 280 parts per million (ppm) to over 380 ppm. Current concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases are unprecedented in at least the last 650,000 years, based on records from gas bubbles trapped in polar ice. • Independent measurements demonstrate that the increased CO2 in the atmosphere comes

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