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“Next thing you know it cools down and close to the edge goes over the edge and it is just too cold to live as anything even remotely civilized.”

I read some article years ago where they (Nat’l Geographic??) or some “expert” came up with the idea that things got cold and the farming and herds went bad. The natives survived by hunting. BUT - by that time the Vikings were Christian, and wouldn’t participate in the pre-hunt rituals with the natives as they were pagan rituals.

So - the natives remained, and the Vikings left/died. I’m not sure how much actual evidence they had of the refusal to participate in the pagan rituals. Although their trash dumps (middens) show few fish, seal or whale bones in them - which were all abundant in the area.

Similarly, Judith Jesch, who heads the Centre for the Study of the Viking Age at the University of Nottingham in the UK, wrote in a recent book that “The causes of the end of [Norse] Greenland may therefore. . .need to be sought in economic, cultural and demographic factors, and perhaps the breakdown of the social order that maintained the economy.”

There's that very scientific word “may” that will just get her another grant and more published papers in the GW/CC scam field...