By the year 1300, however, the climatic good times were coming to an end.

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Natural climate variability, from seasonal to multi-year scale, has produced significant effects in the Latin American countries, which suggests that climatic change projections constitute an important element for national and regional planning.

UNESCO: Climatic Change

There are indications of this in some of the e-mails from and to the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia that were released on to the web late last year.

ECONOMIST: Rajendra Pachauri and the IPCC