“The latter part of the kofun period when the Okhotsk culture reached northern Hokkaido was relatively warm. Sea levels were about 1 meter higher than they are now.
In the early part of the Heian Period (794-1185), when the culture spread across Hokkaido, the average annual temperatures were about 2 to 3 degrees higher than they are today.
At that time, on the opposite side of the Eurasia continent, another northern people, the vikings, increased their population due to the warmer weather. The vikings ventured out to sea, conquered various lands in Europe and spread their reach to as far away as Greenland.”
Pardon me if I am missing something, but if the temperatures were 2-3 degrees warmer than today and these people and other around the world prospered then isn’t GW a good thing?
An online chum told me his family has records of medieval warming-period trade to the east, via the (seasonally thawed) waters of the Arctic Ocean, and through the Bering Strait.
I’m sure that there are global warming zealots headed to Japan as we speak to re-educate the writers of that article in the Holy Anthropogenic Global Warming Dogma that says the Medieval Warm Period did not exist or, if it did, it was a phenomena local to small parts of the North Atlantic. Apparently those responsible for scrubbing the world of knowledge of Medieval Warm Period missed Japan.
Global warming may have been a good thing in those days, but I don’t think they had a billion people living at sea level in those days. Also, at its height, water covered half of Florida. I am not saying GW is correct, I am merely pointing out that even a few feet of sea level rise would be devastating or at least dangerous to many millions, including those in New Orleans, Miami, New York, all our East Coast resort areas, and many along the Gulf, etc. I don’t know the West Coast, so make your own list.