English: 2000+ year graph of global temperature including so-called "Medieval Warm Period" (shaded in pink) and "Little Ice Age" (shaded in blue) - derived from graphic by Ed Hawkins.

Suggested caption:

Global average temperatures show that the Medieval Warm Period was not a planet-wide phenomenon, and that the Little Ice Age was not a distinct planet-wide time period but rather the end of a long temperature decline that preceded recent global warming.

Source: derived from graphic by:

• Hawkins, Ed, https://web.archive.org/web/20200202220240/https://www.climate-lab-book.ac.uk/2020/2019-years/
• Hawkins cites data sources: "PAGES2k (and HadCRUT4.6 for 2001—2019")
• Bottom of Ed Hawkins' professional blog page states: "These blog pages & images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License."
• Archive link to Hawkins original PNG image: https://web.archive.org/web/20200302051704/http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/climate-lab-book/files/2020/01/lia_mwp-1.png

Graphics notes:

1. Version 1 SVG includes two invisible layers:

- a bitmap image of the black trace and gray area

- a bitmap imate of the entire Ed Hawkins graphic, used to properly align graph & axes etc.

1. To reduce file size, Version 2 will exclude these two invisible layers.