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I vote its fiction. There was a medieval warming period in the 14th century and it didn't last too long, i'm betting this is just another warming period. check this graph, its kind of shitty but it shows the temp getting higher than going back to normal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:2000_Year_Temperature_Comparison.png