| | Wine records reveal weather history |
 | | The French team led by Pascal Yiou, from the Laboratory of Climate and Environment Sciences in Gif-sur-Yvette, 20 miles south-west of Paris, identified warm periods in the 1380s, the 1420s, the 1520s and between the 1630s and 1680s. |
 | | The 1420s hot spell was followed by a very cold period that lasted from the mid-1430s to the end of the 1450s. |
 | | The 16th and 17th century periods were especially hot: "These decades were as warm as the end of the 20th century," said the scientists. |
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