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Biased chart

What a biased chart you have. Medieval warm period colder than years before? :) It was well written in ClimateGate emails that they make an additional work to lower the temperatures in "Medieval warm period", so current GW would more alarming. Biased chart, biased science. 95.103.178.167 (talk) 07:26, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The so-called climategate "conspiracy" was proven in multiple studies to have involved no evidence of fraud or scientific misconduct. —RCraig09 (talk) 13:30, 10 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The medieval warming period was warmer and over a broad duration the graph shows the warming period at a flatter data pool. It does seem bias. 96.233.147.155 (talk) 11:52, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

See Smithsonian data pool. https://www.science.smith.edu/climatelit/the-effects-of-the-little-ice-age/#:~:text=Even%20though%20average%20annual%20temperatures,relative%20to%20thousand%2Dyear%20averages. 96.233.147.155 (talk) 11:52, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I stand self corrcted the aggregate is a different pool sample pool for the Smithsonian data. 96.233.147.155 (talk) 11:58, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Misplaced chart.

It seems rather inappropriate for the introduction to have a chart asserting what the little ice age is not, rather than some sort of graphic describing what the little ice age is. 2600:4040:B506:FC00:909F:AF32:58:AE52 (talk) 00:24, 1 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The chart (you're apparently referring to this chart), shows what the LIA was. The chart's caption explains away a common misperception (what the LIA was not). —RCraig09 (talk) 03:58, 13 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thermometers

Were the thermometers is use at the time made with mercury ? Kensington-Philly (talk) 18:19, 6 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To answer your question, No Thermometers during thid time period weren't made with Mercury, as Mercury wouldn't be used in Thermometers until the late 17th and early 18th century. according to the National library of Medicine, Thermometers during this time period were made in the same method in which a bulb and tube, but the bulb was filled with Alcohol. Historysgrad224 (talk) 21:41, 17 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The article says ice age, not the "Little Ice Age" text, but I think it should say glacial period

The Earth is in a 2.56 million-year ice age named the Quaternary Glaciation. The ice age is composed of about 90,000 year glacial periods that alternate with about 10,000 year interglacial periods, such as the current Holocene interglacial period that has in effect for the past 11,700 years. If something is in the 2.56 million-year time frame it is either in a glacial period or an interglacial period. For the Quaternary Glaciation to end all natural ice on Earth will have to melt. Scvblwxq (talk) 03:12, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Of the 176 uses of "Ice Age" in the article, the first 30 (all I could be bothered to check) all say "Little Ice Age" except the 2nd sentence, which reads "It was not a true ice age of global extent", so I think your "The article says ice age, not the "Little Ice Age" text [?]" is just incorrect (as well as ungrammatical and unclear). "Little Ice Age" is an established term, used by many sources, and I suspect predating the contemporary terminology. Johnbod (talk) 04:57, 1 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Incorrect citation

This sentence has an error in citation:

"In the years 1265, 1277 and 1297–1298 Byzantine sources describe extremely harsh cold. Also, around 1300, there were harsh winters in 1298/1299 in the Middle East."

It is cited to Sarah Kate Raphael, Climate and Political Climate page 22. However, this information is not found on that page. Search for the correct page? Enviroseb (talk) 17:30, 2 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]