In this sense, the MW analysis, using the proper proxy data and proper methodological choices, yields inferences regarding the unusual nature of recent warmth that are even more confident than expressed in past work. (realclimate.org)
Mild Little Ice Age and unprecedented recent warmth in an 1800 year lake sediment record from Svalbard, PNAS, v. 40, no. 10, doi: doi: 10.1130 / G33365.1. (geo.umass.edu)
I don't know offhand about the rate of warming over the last 30 years relative to other 30 - year periods **, but I do know offhand that evidence supports the most recent warmth is unusual for the last several hundred or more years. (realclimate.org)