2000+ year graph of global temperature including so-called "Medieval Warm Period" (shaded in pink) and "Little Ice Age" (shaded in blue) - derived from graphic by Ed Hawkins.

Suggested caption:
Global average temperatures show that the Medieval Warm Period was not a planet-wide phenomenon, and that the Little Ice Age was not a distinct planet-wide time period but rather the end of a long temperature decline that preceded recent global warming.Source: derived from graphic by:

Hawkins, Ed, https://web.archive.org/web/20200202220240/https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2020/2019-years/
Hawkins cites data sources: "PAGES2k (and HadCRUT4.6 for 2001—2019")
Bottom of Ed Hawkins' professional blog page states: "These blog pages &amp; images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License."
Archive link to Hawkins original PNG image: https://web.archive.org/web/20200302051704/http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/climate-lab-book/files/2020/01/lia_mwp-1.pngGraphics notes:

Version 1 SVG includes two invisible layers:- a bitmap image of the black trace and gray area
- a bitmap imate of the entire Ed Hawkins graphic, used to properly align graph &amp; axes etc.To reduce file size, Version 2 will exclude these two invisible layers.
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