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To: EdnaMode

Greenland not green, but was green before climate change a few thousand years ago?


8 posted on 04/23/2019 10:01:06 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Mark

Did not the Norse have vineyards there in the seventh and eighth centuries?


40 posted on 04/24/2019 3:43:37 AM PDT by steve8714
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To: Mark
Greenland not green, but was green before climate change a few thousand years ago?

Let's imagine ourselves as Vikings visiting the place during the Medieval Warm Period. If it got warmed up a bit, then you would have glacial runoff water keeping things moist, and the summer days would have been long. That would have made the coasts VERY green.

Greenland in summer

42 posted on 04/24/2019 4:16:23 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Mark

It was warm enough so that parts of it could be farmed.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/why-did-greenland-s-vikings-disappear


45 posted on 04/24/2019 4:51:35 AM PDT by jmcenanly ("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
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