Team Says Arctic Ice Shelf Broke Up Before (1400AD to exact)

Physorg ^ | 10/25/2011 | Physorg

[Dallas59]

Now however, new research by a team from Université Laval in Canada, led by Dermot Antoniadesa, have found, after studying sedimentary material on the bottom of the Disraeli Fiord, created by backup from an ice shelf in Northern Canada, that it experienced a major fracture that resulted in an overall reduction of the ice shelf some 1,400 years ago. Which means this isn’t the first time that the shelf ice has melted and broken apart. The team has published the results of its survey in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[Dallas59]

Paging Al Gore, please pick the white courtesy phone...

[Dallas59]

“be exact”

[HiTech RedNeck]

Medieval Warming Period? (When Greenland was green?)

[HiTech RedNeck]

OK, 1403 AD at 8:46 in the morning Greenland time?

[HiTech RedNeck]

OK, 1403 AD on March 28 at 8:46 in the morning Greenland time?

[pfflier]

...And there were strong indications of a northwest passage for some centuries to follow.

That was before carbon taxes for you algore followers.

[pfflier]

...And there were strong indications of a northwest passage for some centuries to follow.

That was before carbon taxes for you algore followers.

[Chode]

ice is ALWAYS moving!!! it is a slow moving liquid but it is always moving

hell, even GLASS is a slow moving liquid

[Proud2BeRight]

The 1400ad Chevy Caveman SUV was a classic model. It did have issues passing the EPA exhaust standards tests but it was a rugged vehicle.

[dfwgator]

Fred Flintstone drove an SUV?

[EGPWS]

Okay, who were the freedom loving a$$holes back then that tried to destroy the planet solely for the selfish goal of human betterment?

[pfflier]

...And there were strong indications of a northwest passage for some centuries to follow.

That was before carbon taxes for you algore followers.

[Sacajaweau]

All wrong...found the original records.

There was a transposition of numbers thanks to a drunken scribe. It was Friday, March 13, 1304 AD, Julian calendar, right after the cock crowed.

And that's how Friday the 13th got to be not a very good day.

Oh yeh, the drunken scribe ate the chicken. And the neighbor shot the drunken scribe because it was HIS chicken.

[CPT Clay]

Careful; this could be considered blasphemy.

[A message]

It actually says the ice shelf broke up about 1,400 years ago ( 600AD) and reformed approximately 800 years ago ( 1200AD.)

Rather coincidental to the Medieval Warm Period

[OldNavyVet]

For those interested in the evolution of Earth, there's a modern update to Darwin's theory in "Darwin's Ghost" by Steve Jones.

Jones' book parallels Darwin's book (in chapter names) and his facts are fascinating; in the four chapters dealing with geography , for instance ...

One spectacular Earth fact is that ...

"... the summit of Everest is formed of rocks made in a shallow sea." (page 252)

Another is ... regarding Earth:

"Five hundred million years ago the air had twenty times as much carbon dioxide as it contains now." (page 231)

[Wuli]

Something that happened 1,400 years ago, is not something that happened in 1400 A.D., it’s something that happened in approximately 611 A.D.

That’s about 300 years before (and maybe along the way to) the “warming” that was so noticeable to the Norse, in the 10th century, when they went off to settle “Greenland”.

Given how long a “warming” period or “cooling” period can be, in its beginning, middle and decline, it is possible that the Ice Shelf break-up in the 7th century and the warming period noticed in the 10th, have some common long term causes.

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Aurora Borealis

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