Just read or am reading two books, by historians, on the subject. To sum up: The Earth's climate is constantly changing. In the 1100-1200s there was the Medieval warm period. Vineyards as far North as England. The Southern tip of Greenland was warm enough for Viking settlements. Around 1300 things started to cool off. There was increased rainfall in Europe with crop destroying floods and loss of topsoil. There were crop failures and starvation. None of this stopped kings from waging war. One of the King Edwards of England had this thing about wanting to invade Scotland. After several unsuccessful efforts he was appealing to Parliament for money and one member told him he had already spent 100,000 pounds invading Scotland and the whole country was not worth that. The climate gradually warmed up by the 1500s and early 1600s. Again there was a cooling trend accompanied by record rainfall and crop failures. There was also political unrest as nations invaded each other and had civil wars. Spain was getting gold and silver from her colonies in the Americas and spending it to fight European wars, trying to take over Holland and at least parts of Italy. There was also the famous sea battle involving an attempt to send an "Armada" of ships to invade Endland, Which didn't work out too well for Spain. There were civil wars, mainly the English Civil War in the mid 1600s.
Temperatures dropped and the 1700s were quite chilly. As an example, about 1775 as part of the Revolutionary War there was a battle in lower Greenville County, SC, a few miles from my home called the Great Snow Campaign because during the battle over a foot of snow fell. I can testify that there has been no snowfall like that in the 20th century. In the 1800s and 1900s there has been a warming trend. Judging by past weather events we are due for a cooling period, not a warming period.
I will point out the obvious, that no one is claiming that previous periods of warming and cooling were caused by man's activities.
BTW all of the above came from works by serious professional historians, not sensational writers(to put it politely)
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