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To: Fresh Wind

Actually, conservatives sometimes say it was once “Greenland” but apparently it wasn’t in historical times. the Vikings named it Greenland to encourage people to settle there.

I have read that increased warming is allowing more farming there, but of course the article is deceptive because whatever the rate of summer melt, there is some offset during teh winter freeze.

They make it sound like an ice cube melting away on a hot car hood. Not.


18 posted on 01/16/2008 2:53:57 PM PST by Williams
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To: Williams
Actually, conservatives sometimes say it was once “Greenland” but apparently it wasn’t in historical times. the Vikings named it Greenland to encourage people to settle there.

The Vikings settled Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period, when temperatures were as high or higher than today.
While hardly tropical, it was greener than it is now.

39 posted on 01/16/2008 6:11:51 PM PST by Vietnam Vet From New Mexico (Pray For Our Troops)
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