Say, I hate to bring up a sore subject, but the most obvious reason Columbus’ claims have to be discarded is because he says the weather then was warmer than now, and that just can’t be!
It makes Columbus a climate change denier, so we need to dig up his bones and put them in jail until Columbus admits that the world is warmer now than it ever was, and it’s all the fault of middle-aged white men like... like... well, like Columbus.
;-)
Actually, 1492 was right in the middle of the Little Ice Age.
The Little Ice Age:
How Climate Made History 1300-1850
by Brian M. Fagan
Paperback