The statement in question for this assignment makes several claims: that the Little Ice Age cooled the climate throughout the world, that it was not the coldest period since the last Ice Age and that since the earth is in a period of natural warming starting from this period, human-produced greenhouse gases are implausible as a source of global warming. Some of these statements are true, but there are also errors in these statements. The Little Ice Age is the name for the cooling period from 1400 to 1900 AD that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period. Scientists believe these changes were caused by solar minimums and reversals in the North Atlantic Oscillation, a broad atmospheric circulation system that influences the weather in the North Atlantic area, including Europe (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2014) . The Little Ice Age is often thought to have had a global impact. However, in 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a climate assessment report that, although there had been glacial increases in other parts of the world, they were not synchronous with the increase in glaciers....