[dirtboy]

It's currently a lot warmer than then.

But still cooler than the Medival Warm period, a time of formerly unprecedented human prosperity that ended with the onset of the Little Ice Age.

Warm is good.

[cogitator]

But still cooler than the Medival Warm period,

Debatable and not resolvable (according to both the NAS and the IPCC) with currently available data and analyses. That is ultimately one of the main outcomes of the "hockey stick" evaluation -- beyond 400 years ago quantitative comparisons of global and regional temperature are inconclusive.

Best that can be said is that it was warm then (MWP) and it's warm now.