The climate has been warming since about 1750, when we started to come out of the Little Ice Age.  It has likely been warmer than today in historic times; people grew crops in Greenland and grapes grew in what is now Newfoundland ('Vinland') a thousand years ago, and in Roman times, Britannia was a prime grape growing region...

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