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Why Did Vikings Mysteriously Leave Greenland? We May Finally Know The Reason
msn.com ^ | March 25, 2022 | Mike McRae

Posted on 03/26/2022 6:47:49 AM PDT by dennisw

For the better part of four centuries, Greenland's southern coast defined the westernmost edge of Viking occupation.

Seduced by visions of verdant hills and fertile ground, in the late 10th century waves of Norse migrants set sail in hopes of an easier life abroad. At its peak, the colony's population numbered in the thousands, spread out across three major settlements.

And then it ended. No word of hardship. No record of struggle. By the middle of the 15th century, the Norse experiment in Greenland was a bust.

New research suggests we might have had it all wrong about the prime cause of the collapse, shifting the focus from extreme cold to extreme drought.

Historians have speculated that the cause of the colony's collapse could have been anything from sudden violence at the hands of an invading culture to a gradual decline in birth rates, to hardship brought on by a changing climate.

There's little doubt that a variety of factors were at work, but the consensus has tended to see one as critical – an enduring drop in temperatures referred to as the Little Ice Age.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: ancientnavigation; climate; europe; fauxiantroll; fauxiantrolls; godsgravesglyphs; greenland; history; jareddiamond; jareddiamondsucks; littleiceage; middleages; mikemcrae; naturalcauses; renaissance; thevikings; vikings; weather
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To: dennisw

The after-effects of Black Death. When word came back that huge labor shortages led to increased pay, economic opportunity and new social constructs, they returned, rather than enduring a sucky life.

1/5 of all Hondurans and El Salvadorians live in the US. It would be 100% if it were legal. It’s not rocket science.


21 posted on 03/26/2022 7:14:59 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: dennisw

Nothing but snow, ice and rocks for 8 months of the year and rocks for the other four. I wouldn’t stick around there either.....


22 posted on 03/26/2022 7:15:32 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: dennisw

Lack of Women


23 posted on 03/26/2022 7:23:52 AM PDT by kanawa ((Securing the 2022/2024 elections is of paramount importance.))
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To: dennisw

New research suggests we might have had it all wrong about the prime cause of the collapse, shifting the focus from extreme cold to extreme drought.
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Any northerner can tell you that snow doesn’t fall when it gets very cold. Greenland teeters on the cusp of being too cold to snow. The premise of this conclusion is wrong. A Greenland drought would have been brought on by falling temperatures.


24 posted on 03/26/2022 7:24:46 AM PDT by nagant
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To: dennisw

“Blubber for dinner again?! All we ever eat is blubber!”


25 posted on 03/26/2022 7:26:11 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything.)
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To: dennisw
Yes it's true. Some posts can be summarized and replied to without reading the article. I was certain the field of journalism had thoroughly researched the movements of viking culture a thousand years ago without coming to the conclusion that climate change was their focus. Alas I was wrong.

I'm sure at some point the ruins of Pompeii will indicate sudden, severe, and irreversible climate change killed the city.

26 posted on 03/26/2022 7:27:52 AM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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To: Leaning Right

Putins other child.


27 posted on 03/26/2022 7:33:33 AM PDT by crz
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To: dennisw

Global Cooling froze the wine crop.


28 posted on 03/26/2022 7:39:00 AM PDT by G Larry (Tolerance will rise until intelligent people are banned from thinking to avoid offending imbeciles)
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To: Erik Latranyi

We do know that Earth’s climate drastically changed around 10,800 BC. Everything else since then has either been so minor that it makes no real difference or is the product of overactive imaginations.


29 posted on 03/26/2022 7:41:01 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: heavy metal

No Greenland Bay Packers then?


30 posted on 03/26/2022 7:48:33 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: dennisw

Because it was a major drag, that’s why.


31 posted on 03/26/2022 7:49:04 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: dennisw

“too much to bare.”

If only they’d written that in the first place, I could have skipped the whole thing.

The illiteracy disclosure should be near the top.


32 posted on 03/26/2022 7:49:59 AM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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To: dennisw

We know from “science” that the climate doesn’t just change on it’s own. So this must be wrong.

Sarcasm


33 posted on 03/26/2022 7:52:27 AM PDT by Tenacious 1
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To: Ranxerox

>>>>the hardiest Vikings would find years of drought just too much to bare...

I imagine the winters made it difficult to “bare”, the drought would only be difficult to “bear”. I guess MSDNC doesn’t have proofreaders...


34 posted on 03/26/2022 7:56:51 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: dennisw

I have read one theory about recurring instances of the Plague in Northern Europe and wars cut off trade headed to Greenland causing the collapse.


35 posted on 03/26/2022 8:07:52 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: ThunderSleeps

Someone or some entity is funding a lot of “research” that spins any past change in human behavior and blames climate change
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That “someone” would be the US taxpayer.


36 posted on 03/26/2022 8:12:50 AM PDT by Roccus (First we beat the Nazis........Then we defeated the Soviets....... Now, we are them.)
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To: dennisw

They couldn’t stand eating rotten shark?


37 posted on 03/26/2022 8:19:20 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: kanawa

“Lack of Women”

that would of been easy to resolve given Viking methods of courtship. Just go to Ireland and carry off some fine ladies.


38 posted on 03/26/2022 8:23:02 AM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Good warning. Thanks for posting.


39 posted on 03/26/2022 8:30:07 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: Bob434

LOL, they left it for Andrew Zimmern!


40 posted on 03/26/2022 8:31:12 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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