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To: GladesGuru
The Slimes seems to forget that when the Vikings started their colony on Greenland (which they named because it was then green!) there was no anthropogenic "greenhouse gas" component in the atmosphere.

Erik the Red named the icy, cold land he discovered "Greenland" to con other Scandinavians into following him there. It was barely habitable then, and when it cooled off into the LIA, it got appreciably worse.

72 posted on 01/04/2007 11:53:31 AM PST by cogitator
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To: cogitator

Reread the Sagas and the recent reports of teh scientific excavations. The Vikings did pasture cattle on Greenland. There were no vines growing there, and that was both Hugh and series to them.

All reports are congruent on the Viking love of mead, wine, etc.

Vinland, probably Newfoundland or perhaps part of New England, well may have had vines during that warm period.


75 posted on 01/04/2007 12:27:31 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principles, - -)
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