text: The current warm period is no anthropogenic product, rather it is the natural result of a repeating 1000-year cycle that goes back far into the past. Todays warm period does not even reach the temperatures seen in the past warm periods, which at times were 1 to 2C higher. Moreover it is important to note that during both of the past temperature maxima of 1000 and 2000 years ago, the CO2 values were at 280 ppm while today they are at 400 ppm. This indicates that the earlier warmer periods likely were related to natural solar activity and not to a rise in CO2 because there was no CO2 rise during those warm phases.