GGG Ping.
You mean that Greenland really was green once and they didn’t merely name it that as a marketing gimick? :o
The population of the Greenland community grew to about 30,000.
L lean towards the research that speculates that, in escaping the crushing cold of the approaching Little Ice Age, they took to the waterways in Canada and ended up intermarrying with North American Indian tribes along the Great Lakes - and most particularly, the Mandans.
Do some research on the Mandans...fascinating.
What the climate got cooler? How can this be? I thought the earth will be the temp of molten lead in a year or two
Climate change is always happening. Climate and weather are never constant. Greenland is great evidence of the most recent changes. Stories like this need to get more publicity because it explains that weather was much warmer 800 years ago and the world did not come to an end. I bet the environmentalists and the cruises they host to indocrinate people never stop by to see the Greenland Norse settlements that are just now emerging from the ice.
“Of course they ate fish,” she says. “One common way of preparing cod was to gut it, dry it, and then cook it in a pot for three or four hours and eat your porridge, bones and all.”
AHHHHH!!!! Not the LUTEFISK!!!!!!!
I wonder what Ingebjorg looks like without that hood?
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With the population dramatically reduced, folks could pull back from those fringe operations in Greenland and Northern Iceland and live like human beings.
In Northern Norway the Norse died off, or abandoned their farms and the Sa'ami moved South to take over the fishing, or to actually begin farming themselves.
The Sa'ami had a very low death rate due to Black Death (and a bunch of other diseases that kill less rodent adapted humans in the Sunny Southlands).
Norwegian Sa'ami who adopted Norse lifestyles were no longer identified as Sa'ami. In the good old days no one knew that there were major genetic differences between the Sa'ami (cold adapted) and the Norse.
“Things got colder and they left.”
Yep.
Any explanation is acceptable to the Al Gore Crowd, except
noting THE REAL HEADLINE!
“Global Warming AND Global Cooling Happen All The Time”
“Things got colder and they left.”
Yep.
Any explanation is acceptable to the Al Gore Crowd, except
noting THE REAL HEADLINE!
“Global Warming AND Global Cooling Happen All The Time”
Bush's fault.
Somewhere long ago I read about some explorers who visited Greenland in the 1500s and found dead Greenland settlers. Spanish explorers, I think. I always wondered whether these explorers had killed and robbed the last Greenland Viking inhabitants. The only thing I found when searching today concerned a Dutchman named strangely enough, Jon Greenlander, who visited Greenland in 1540.
"Dutch whaling captain Jon Greenlander lands in Greenland and finds the last Norse colonist lying dead outside his hut with an iron dagger in his hand" [Source]
I’ve been studying climate change for over 60 years and have come to some startling conclusions:
1. Climate change first came to my attention as a young boy when I noticed that the days in S. Texas became hotter and hotter in the months from May to Sept. In the days before air-conditioning this was all but unberable. But we had to grin and bear it.
2. Then there would be a couple of months of tolerable temperatures during Sept to Oct, sometimes lasting through November. Some nasty cold rains though.
3. Usually by December the climate would reverse, becoming progressively colder through Feb. My personality frequently changed during this period for no reason at all.
4.Although March and April had some revisionist leanings, they usually provided a liveable climate that should have been a model for the rest of the year. Except for the thunderstorms with golf-ball sized hail and tornados. Of course, I was a poor boy and didn’t know what a golf ball was so I just called them ‘big as horse turds.”
5. But no...Mr Climate wouldn’t have that. May started the same ugly cycle all over again. I have seen this happen all the years without any significant variation and believe climate change to be all too real.
‘Occam’s Razor’ comes to mind.
I didn’t know that Greenland was considered part of North America.
I wonder what kind of credits Al Gore will sell if we experience global cooling all of a suddden?