Any opinions on the middle ages "warming period"?

Question

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2003%2F04%2F06%2Fnclim06.xml

Answer 1

This warming was not global, like today's is, it was localized around Europe. See the NOAA article on the subject.

Answer 2

The data supports the argument that there was a warming period.  I agree with that.    Here is a quote from the article.

"Claims that man-made pollution is causing "unprecedented" global warming have been seriously undermined by new research which shows that the Earth was warmer during the Middle Ages.

From the outset of the global warming debate in the late 1980s, environmentalists have said that temperatures are rising higher and faster than ever before, leading some scientists to conclude that greenhouse gases from cars and power stations are causing these "record-breaking" global temperatures."

I don't agree that just because we have a record of a warming period in the past that climate change predictions are inaccurate.  Nothing stays the same so the reasons for warming then are not the same as they are now.