Posted on 12/09/2016 12:32:12 PM PST by Lorianne
The fact that over 80 percent of a landmass, more than a fifth the size of the United States, is covered in ice and is still called Greenland has been a source of frequent puzzlement for many, who wonder at the misnomer. And while there is evidence that the world’s largest island (smaller than Australia, which counts as a continent) was greener in the past than it is now, a new study shows Greenland could have been completely ice-free 1.1 million years ago.
In the Pleistocene epoch, which lasted from approximately 2.59 million years ago to 11,700 years ago, there was a period of 280,000 years when there was no ice in Greenland, the study, led by Joerg Schaefer, a paleoclimatologist at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, suggests. According to Schaefer and his co-authors, this period was between 1.4 million and 1.1 million years ago.
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This is HUGH, and SERIES!
You mean like because of the sun or something?
Later
N.Y. Ranger fan here.
Rangers Blackhawks tonight with a rematch in a few days.
Should be great hockey.
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The bullshit never stops.
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Well, that leaves out continental drift and most of the known vulcanism episodes (Siberian and Dekkan super eruptions). So, were the mega-fauna doing mega farts?
I saw this movie.
It’ll suck when all the frozen Nazi zombies wake up.
I had heard it as the Vikings called the one island Iceland, and then realized it was bad advertising to get colonists, and decided to lie about the next island, calling it “Greenland” to avoid the bad name. After all, I’d rather stay at the all-inclusive adults only Cancun resort than a crappy Knight’s Inn in Moose Jaw Saskatchewan.
In any event, I think that story is an historical fable. It didn’t take into account historical climate change. In 980 A.D., Greenland was in fact quite green. There was still an ice cap inland, but there was a substantial habitable zone along the coast. Nice pine forests, too.
I actually own an Artem Anisimov #42 Columbus Blue Jackets jersey. Not many people can say that.
The story goes that Erik the Red named Greenland that to attract settlers...he figured that the name Iceland had discouraged Norsemen from going there. False advertising. Ripe for a class-action lawsuit if their society had been overrun with lawyers.
The story goes that Erik the Red named Greenland that to attract settlers...he figured that the name Iceland had discouraged Norsemen from going there. False advertising. Ripe for a class-action lawsuit if their society had been overrun with lawyers.
I see where “global warming” activists were forced to endure bitter cold and snow in Colorado.
All those steel mills Leif Erikson built temporarily caused the ice to melt.
Maybe the residents were selling green sunglasses. Could be where Wayfarers originated. Apropos name for folks traveling the north atlantic at that time.
It was green when the Vikings first inhabited it, and someday it will be green again. Ho hum.
I was reading up on French wine classifications a while back. The best wines which are grand cru often come from just a narrow band on the hillside. The band may only be a few hundred feet in depth. Too low on the hillside, grapes don’t get enough sunlight. Too high on the hillside, the temperature maybe to low. I am sure the winery’s outside of the grand cru zone are rooting for climate change...
More evidence that there was an ancient civilization on Earth that had SUVs that caused the prehistoric warming period!!!!
Himanshu Goenka gets paid for posting this “stuff” posing as science.
What happened to the ice? There were no cars, planes, factories, nothing putting CO2 in the air. Could it be that climate changes itself????
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