Posted on 03/26/2022 6:47:49 AM PDT by dennisw
For the better part of four centuries, Greenland's southern coast defined the westernmost edge of Viking occupation.
Seduced by visions of verdant hills and fertile ground, in the late 10th century waves of Norse migrants set sail in hopes of an easier life abroad. At its peak, the colony's population numbered in the thousands, spread out across three major settlements.
And then it ended. No word of hardship. No record of struggle. By the middle of the 15th century, the Norse experiment in Greenland was a bust.
New research suggests we might have had it all wrong about the prime cause of the collapse, shifting the focus from extreme cold to extreme drought.
Historians have speculated that the cause of the colony's collapse could have been anything from sudden violence at the hands of an invading culture to a gradual decline in birth rates, to hardship brought on by a changing climate.
There's little doubt that a variety of factors were at work, but the consensus has tended to see one as critical – an enduring drop in temperatures referred to as the Little Ice Age.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
<< brought on by a changing climate. >>
Before the industrial revolution? How is that possible? /s
they got tired of the cold
First, Univ of Mass Amherst and Univ of Buffalo are communist schools. I trust NOTHING that comes from them.
Second, they minimize the effects of the “Little Ice Age” that took place at the same time the Vikings disappeared, saying that they cannot show it from core samples.
The bottom line is that there is very little we truly understand about climate changes in the past and what caused them. But these are the same people who can tell us what the climate will look like 100 years from now down to 0.1 C
No SUVS to warm things up...
Liberals were in charge?
Because the summers dramatically shortened while winter dramatically increased. They could no longer feed themselves let alone maintain agricultural exports to Europe.
Years ago I read a book titled ‘Collapse’ by Jared Diamond. He earlier wrote ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel.’ The book ‘Collapse had a section on the settlement issues of Greenland. I enjoyed that work.
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greenland wasn’t a favorable climate for an nfl team...
It is just a crappy place to live, especially to grow crops.
MSN.com and their fine journalistic skills. It's a plausible hypothesis I suppose, but I find myself skeptical at obvious attempts at revisionist history. Going forward, everything will be caused by climate change - I guess that is one way to validate the methods used to determine the climate conditions this story is based on.
But I thought that falling temperatures was a good thing.
I’m guessing the Vikings had the nerve to burn wood to keep themselves warm. That set off a Climate Change catastrophe that we are paying for today.
Because of this, I demand that the Minnesota Vikings change their name. The Minnesota Thunbergs works for me.
In the Medieval Warm Period (950 AD to c. 1250), Greenland would indeed have been very green.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
Runoff from melting glaciers would have made the ground very well irrigated, and the long summer days would have produced a good growing season.
That's all this is, laying background to make us more fearful of climate change. It is pathetic, disgusting, and insulting.
Too much Ice ,LOL
Look up why Chaco in NM was abandoned - newer “theories” are climate change related. Look up why Mesa Verde was abandoned - newer “theories” are climate change related. Someone or some entity is funding a lot of “research” that spins any past change in human behavior and blames climate change. It is a coordinated effort to make the sheeple fear climate change.
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