Global Warming: Medieval Era Hotter than Today

The London Telegraph ^ | 06/04/2003) | Robert Matthews

[Francohio]

Memo to Al Gore and the Green Party

[Sir Gawain]

Got a direct link?

[marron]

Am I mistaken in recalling that the Vikings settled Greenland when it was relatively "green", and disappeared after the "little ice age" set in, due apparently to isolation, disease, and possibly eskimo attack?

[RippleFire]

bump

[Francohio]

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/06/nclim06.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/06/ixhome.html

[Francohio]

On the money, marron. Nat Geo Special.

[GladesGuru]

Available hard data supports just what you said.

Looks like it's going to be one of those "be nice to your liberalism impaired friends" times. Life is only going to be evermore stressful for them.

[Sam Cree]

Interesting article. I'm under the impression that the information is more or less common knowledge, but I guess that doesn't stop the global warming grant seekers.

[lelio]

A professor of mine summed up the greenies position as someone that's never been the beech taking tide measures every hour in the morning, and predicting that in two weeks the world will be underwater. When you're dealing with data from the last 100 years of the earth's billion year life span you shouldn't go out making predictions.

[Bommer]

Global Warming is the biggest crock prepetuated on the World! And we can thank dear old Maggie Thatcher for it!

[the-ironically-named-proverbs2]

ping

[staytrue]

Am I mistaken in recalling that the Vikings settled Greenland when it was relatively "green", and disappeared after the "little ice age" set in, due apparently to isolation, disease, and possibly eskimo attack?

Your reference to eskimo attack implies that the Vikings were entitled to displace the local population (if any) and, reflects a strictly Viking/European view. A more balanced view would be "eskimos repelling an invader".

[Black Agnes]

Eleanor of Acquitaine had vinyards in England.

[Ciexyz]

It must've been miserable for the nuns--Europe under a hot spell and they had to wear those headdresses and robes.

[Campion]

Absolutely correct, but add starvation to your list of causes for the end of Viking settlement in Greenland.

[pepsionice]

You are more or less correct...Greenland was a open invitation and the Vikings found the region to be fairly decent. The 'little ice age' really hindered exploration of the Atlantic...if it had not occurred...then America would be common knowledge by late 1300s.

[jocon307]

"...today's "unprecedented" temperatures are simply the result of examining temperature change over too short a period of time."

This is the point I've been trying to make about this for a while, myself. I mean, tree-rings and all are very nice, but how many 500 year old trees are there, in Europe, especially. And you have to cut the tree down to study its rings, no? I mean, really, when was the thermometer invented, anyway? When did we start keeping regular records of weather, accurate or not? Were there monks who kepts logs, even without measuring devices, "it's hot today, it's cold today, it snowed today, etc."? My understanding is that weather "records" go back about 125 years at this point. I'm happy to be enlightened by any knowledgable freepers out there.

[Light Speed]

Monks were too busy making cheese ,wine and beer....then working on how to overcome odors.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: Global Warming: Medieval Era Hotter than Today

Which explains:

"One more 'Are we there yet?'
and I'm going medieval on your a$$!"

Want a break from war news? Go to the Stark Trek Freeper Post or the New Stark Trek Website for a laugh or two. Then come back refreshed and loaded for bear!

[BOBTHENAILER]

Memo to Al Gore and the Green Party

I'm quite certain the warming during this period was due to the heavy reliance on 4 Leg drive vehicles, commonly referred to then as HUV's (horse utility vehicles).

In addition the extreme use of wood burning for heat and cooking could have easily been avoided and saved the planet. Then again, its still here.....go figure.