Your data still indicates a precipitous and, in your span unprecedented, loss of ice extents. Out of curiosity, how was Arctic ice extent determined prior to satellites and where, precisely, do these data shift from proxy to instrumented records?
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Persistent positive North Atlantic oscillation mode dominated the Medieval Climate Anomaly) the source of that all the data noted with a solid line.
Abstract
The Medieval Climate Anomaly (MCA) was the most recent pre-industrial era warm interval of European climate, yet its driving mechanisms remain uncertain. We present here a 947-year-long multidecadal North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) reconstruction and find a persistent positive NAO during the MCA. Supplementary reconstructions based on climate model results and proxy data indicate a clear shift to weaker NAO conditions into the Little Ice Age (LIA). Globally distributed proxy data suggest that this NAO shift is one aspect of a global MCA-LIA climate transition that
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