New paper finds China was warmer than the present 1100 & 1700 years ago — Forthcoming paper in Climate of the Past
Study 'reconstructs temperatures from 5 locations in China and finds no statistically significant change in temperature between the beginning of the record 2000 years ago to the end of the record in the year 2000. The paper shows the Medieval Warming Period about 1100 years ago and the Roman Warming Period ~1800 years ago were both warmer than the present'