Global warming and Vikings

Archaeological Institute of America ^ | February 28, 2000 | Dale Mackenzie Brown

[MrPiper]

"An ice core drilled from the island's massive icecap between 1992 and 1993 shows a decided cooling off in the Western Settlement during the mid-fourteenth century."

[MrPiper]

Interesting article on the demise of the settlers of Greenland. Its a good article about that, but it states that a "decided cooling in the 14th century" could have been the main reason these settlers disappeared.

So if Greenland had a cooling off in the fourteenth century, it must have had some global warming before the fourteenth century ?????

Ya, I know, I'm beating a dead horse, but I thought some might like the article and its unintended proof of pryor cycles of world heating and cooling. (now where's that spell check)

[RetiredArmy]

The Minnesota Viking are responsible for global warming!!! Man, I knew they were hot, well not on the field, out on the boats. You know how Vikings, especially the Minnesota type, like boats and fun!!! Yuk yuk yuk.

[trubluolyguy]

The Minnesota Viking are responsible for global warming!!!

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Naw, Viking Kitties?

[llevrok]

Good to see the Minn. Vikings respoinsible for somthing! (boat trip? Wheeee!!)

[Archon of the East]

Following the little Ice age that lasted from about 1100 AD to 1800 AD one could reasonably expect a WARMING period.

[RetiredArmy]

Right. No more do we yell "road trip." Now you yell "boat trip" and know we are going for some fun, fun, fun, till daddy takes the paddles away.

[Gondring]

In time he granted her a small church 6.5 feet wide and 11.5 feet long, with room for 20 to 30 worshipers.

Sardines?

[Soaring Feather]

PING!!

[ncountylee]

"In time he granted her a small church 6.5 feet wide and 11.5 feet long, with room for 20 to 30 worshipers."

Coach seating.

[VeniVidiVici]

it must have had some global warming before the fourteenth century ?????

Well, ya.

Why do you think it's called "Greenland"? :-)

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

No, it's quite a well known phenomenon that the MSM and environmental activists and "scientists" conveniently leave out of their gloom and doom press releases/fundraising letters. We emerged from a glaciation period (ice age) several thousand years ago via a gradual warming. Starting in the at around and lasting well into the second half of the 19th century, we experienced what climatologists call the "Little Ice Age". For several centuries before that was a period that was actually warmer than this one which is known as, obviously, the Medieval Warming period. The Little Ice Age, for example, is one reason that we almost lost our soldiers in the winter of 1776.....for the simple reasons that winters were, on average, much colder and more severe than we are used to having.

Also, another under-reported or non-reported little factoid is that, again according to ice core data, CO2 levels don't precede warming periods....they follow them. So, the increases in CO2 that we're seeing today may not be a cause of global warming but may be a natural mechanism of the planet to cool itself from episodes of warming, i.e. increased temperature causes increased CO2 levels which, in turn, stimulate increased growth of vegetation which cool the earth and simulataneously reabsorb the CO2 through photosynthesis.

[stubernx98]

I have a documentary that is finishing up next week, about this subject. Basically, when the settlements failed and the people disappeared in the mid 1350's, The King of Norway sent a group to find them and get his investment back. They arrived, and found no one there and then went on to Hudson's Bay to track them down, and ended up in Minnesota where the group met a tragic fate,(either the plague got a bunch of them or the Indians did. They then carved what has become known as the Kenigston Runnestone.

the Documentary has to do with what happened after the stone was discovered in 1890, and now.

[xcamel]

One would never let the facts get in the way of a good horror story keeping thousands of bureaucrats and talking heads employed, would one?

[A message]

Mrpiper, You are correct. For there to be a cooling period there was a warmer period before it. The Earth goes through cooling and warming periods. The sun is not an absolute constant.

But logic does not matter to Chicken Little, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky or Goosey Poosey.

And yes says Foxy Woxy we are doomed as doomed can be so come to my foxhole.

[MeanWestTexan]

Coach standing, actually.

Most (poor) Christian churches stood until pretty recently.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Eric the Red was an astute real estate promoter. He came from Iceland, and saw the effect that name had on land prices there.

[BenLurkin]

Dark Ages Ping

[BenLurkin]

Maybe it actually was green when they first got there.

[rod1]

It is just that Greenland was smarter than North Dakota when it came to picking a name that would draw in those tourist dollars.

[JackFromTexas]

In most old European cathedrals, the only seats originally there were along the walls, where the choir sat. Once the singning was over, the choir joined the body of the congregation in the middle, and the speaker then would announce something like 'Let the weak go to the wall' where they could sit down. That's where that saying is from. In that small chapel, though, it was certainly SRO!