Posted on 12/09/2016 12:32:12 PM PST by Lorianne
The fact that over 80 percent of a landmass, more than a fifth the size of the United States, is covered in ice and is still called Greenland has been a source of frequent puzzlement for many, who wonder at the misnomer. And while there is evidence that the world’s largest island (smaller than Australia, which counts as a continent) was greener in the past than it is now, a new study shows Greenland could have been completely ice-free 1.1 million years ago.
In the Pleistocene epoch, which lasted from approximately 2.59 million years ago to 11,700 years ago, there was a period of 280,000 years when there was no ice in Greenland, the study, led by Joerg Schaefer, a paleoclimatologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, suggests. According to Schaefer and his co-authors, this period was between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago.
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I liked it better when Greenland wasn’t covered with so much ice. We could go deep into the woods to play.
You know, if this global warming thing keeps happening, Vikings could be raising cattle in Greenland and harvesting grapes in Labrador. They can’t do that now because its too cold, but global warming could make it happen.
Just like it did 1000 years ago.
And don’t even get me started on Iceland.
Interesting. So when we see stories such as this, doesn’t it make the point, that “climate change” has gone on for eons, and has happened before man was allegedly polluting the earth so severely??
Heck we’ve been in a period of global warming since the end of the last ice age. During the ice age, Chicago was buried under a mile of ice. How did all that ice melt if not for a natural cycle of global warming????
What happened to the ice? There were no cars, planes, factories, nothing putting CO2 in the air. Could it be that climate changes itself????
The fact that over 80 percent of a landmass, more than a fifth the size of the United States, is covered in ice and is still called Greenland has been a source of frequent puzzlement for many, who wonder at the misnomer.
I don't wonder because it was not a misnomer at the time the Vikings discovered it around 980 A.D.
Medieval Warm Period ring a bell?
If the Greenland glaciers started melting during the Midieval Warm Period, then it truly WOULD have been a green land, from all the irrigating water.
Nah, that can’t be it.
Ah, a pretense masquerading as science, guided by an ulterior motive acting the part of a computer model.
So that's why the Blackhawks are so good!
“The fact that over 80 percent of a landmass, more than a fifth the size of the United States, is covered in ice and is still called Greenland has been a source of frequent puzzlement for many, who wonder at the misnomer. “
Because it was green before it was covered in ice...
Add an enthusiastic Viking 'real estate developer' by the name of Eric Thorvaldsson (Erik the Red), Lief Erikson's father as well. Easier to get settlers if the name does not have 'ice' in it, besides, Iceland was already taken!
Back when Greenland was green and Iceland was icy.
Sounds good to me. 50 degrees latitude is about the farthest you can go to grow grapes for wine. The Mosel flows into the Rhine at Koblenz, about 50.3 degrees.
My favorite winery in Germany is in Briedel, and they're at 50.02. Winemakers grow their grapes on one side of the river, the side that receives the most sun. With global warming, they'd be able to grow grapes on both sides of the river, so I'm all for global warming...lol.
Yes, when I first studied history I was told that the Vikings misnamed them Iceland and Greenland because they wanted to discourage settlers from coming to one of them, and encourage them to come to the other.
Everything reverses itself at some point...just like spring, summer, fall, winter...here in Upsate NY....where it’s friggin’ snowing just to mess up the weekend.
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