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Global warming and Vikings
Archaeological Institute of America ^
| February 28, 2000
| Dale Mackenzie Brown
Posted on 10/28/2005 2:41:42 PM PDT by MrPiper
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Interesting article on the demise of the settlers of Greenland. Its a good article about that, but it states that a "decided cooling in the 14th century" could have been the main reason these settlers disappeared.
So if Greenland had a cooling off in the fourteenth century, it must have had some global warming before the fourteenth century ?????
Ya, I know, I'm beating a dead horse, but I thought some might like the article and its unintended proof of pryor cycles of world heating and cooling. (now where's that spell check)
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:41:42 PM PDT
by
MrPiper
To: MrPiper
The Minnesota Viking are responsible for global warming!!! Man, I knew they were hot, well not on the field, out on the boats. You know how Vikings, especially the Minnesota type, like boats and fun!!! Yuk yuk yuk.
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:43:49 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(Socialist Dems, the MSM and Islamic murderers, ALL threats to the Republic!)
To: RetiredArmy
The Minnesota Viking are responsible for global warming!!!
Naw, Viking Kitties?
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:45:36 PM PDT
by
trubluolyguy
(I am Lord of the Sea People! Ruler of their under water universe!)
To: RetiredArmy
Good to see the Minn. Vikings respoinsible for somthing! (boat trip? Wheeee!!)
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:46:01 PM PDT
by
llevrok
(Drink your beer, damnit! There are sober people in Africa !)
To: MrPiper
Following the little Ice age that lasted from about 1100 AD to 1800 AD one could reasonably expect a WARMING period.
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:47:04 PM PDT
by
Archon of the East
("universal executive power of the law of nature")
To: llevrok
Right. No more do we yell "road trip." Now you yell "boat trip" and know we are going for some fun, fun, fun, till daddy takes the paddles away.
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:48:12 PM PDT
by
RetiredArmy
(Socialist Dems, the MSM and Islamic murderers, ALL threats to the Republic!)
To: MrPiper
In time he granted her a small church 6.5 feet wide and 11.5 feet long, with room for 20 to 30 worshipers. Sardines?
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:48:48 PM PDT
by
Gondring
(I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
To: WayzataJOHNN
To: Gondring
"In time he granted her a small church 6.5 feet wide and 11.5 feet long, with room for 20 to 30 worshipers."
Coach seating.
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:52:24 PM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
To: MrPiper
it must have had some global warming before the fourteenth century ????? Well, ya.
Why do you think it's called "Greenland"? :-)
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:52:48 PM PDT
by
VeniVidiVici
(What, me worry?)
To: MrPiper
No, it's quite a well known phenomenon that the MSM and environmental activists and "scientists" conveniently leave out of their gloom and doom press releases/fundraising letters. We emerged from a glaciation period (ice age) several thousand years ago via a gradual warming. Starting in the at around and lasting well into the second half of the 19th century, we experienced what climatologists call the "Little Ice Age". For several centuries before that was a period that was actually warmer than this one which is known as, obviously, the Medieval Warming period. The Little Ice Age, for example, is one reason that we almost lost our soldiers in the winter of 1776.....for the simple reasons that winters were, on average, much colder and more severe than we are used to having.
Also, another under-reported or non-reported little factoid is that, again according to ice core data, CO2 levels don't precede warming periods....they follow them. So, the increases in CO2 that we're seeing today may not be a cause of global warming but may be a natural mechanism of the planet to cool itself from episodes of warming, i.e. increased temperature causes increased CO2 levels which, in turn, stimulate increased growth of vegetation which cool the earth and simulataneously reabsorb the CO2 through photosynthesis.
To: MrPiper
I have a documentary that is finishing up next week, about this subject. Basically, when the settlements failed and the people disappeared in the mid 1350's, The King of Norway sent a group to find them and get his investment back. They arrived, and found no one there and then went on to Hudson's Bay to track them down, and ended up in Minnesota where the group met a tragic fate,(either the plague got a bunch of them or the Indians did. They then carved what has become known as the Kenigston Runnestone.
the Documentary has to do with what happened after the stone was discovered in 1890, and now.
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:55:42 PM PDT
by
stubernx98
(cranky, but reasonable)
To: MarcusTulliusCicero
One would never let the facts get in the way of a good horror story keeping thousands of bureaucrats and talking heads employed, would one?
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:57:12 PM PDT
by
xcamel
(No more RINOS - Not Now, Not Ever Again.)
To: MrPiper
Mrpiper, You are correct. For there to be a cooling period there was a warmer period before it. The Earth goes through cooling and warming periods. The sun is not an absolute constant.
But logic does not matter to Chicken Little, Henny Penny, Cocky Locky or Goosey Poosey.
And yes says Foxy Woxy we are doomed as doomed can be so come to my foxhole.
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posted on
10/28/2005 2:57:47 PM PDT
by
A message
( Being a "Progressive" means never having to be truthful to yourself)
To: ncountylee
Coach standing, actually.
Most (poor) Christian churches stood until pretty recently.
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posted on
10/28/2005 3:12:50 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: VeniVidiVici
Eric the Red was an astute real estate promoter. He came from Iceland, and saw the effect that name had on land prices there.
To: blam; SunkenCiv
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posted on
10/28/2005 3:19:54 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: MrPiper
Maybe it actually was green when they first got there.
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posted on
10/28/2005 3:20:23 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: VeniVidiVici
It is just that Greenland was smarter than North Dakota when it came to picking a name that would draw in those tourist dollars.
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posted on
10/28/2005 3:41:28 PM PDT
by
rod1
To: MeanWestTexan
In most old European cathedrals, the only seats originally there were along the walls, where the choir sat. Once the singning was over, the choir joined the body of the congregation in the middle, and the speaker then would announce something like 'Let the weak go to the wall' where they could sit down. That's where that saying is from. In that small chapel, though, it was certainly SRO!
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