[AngelesCrestHighway]

Those damn Minnesota Vikings...I knew it was their fault all along...GO RAIDERS...SAVE US ART SHELL!

[Chi-townChief]

All those Viking longboats caused atmospheric changes.

[Vaquero]

so there you are......it was this warm or warmer 1200 years ago....so what type of SUV's were they driving or did their Viking boats with the dragon heads have big Hemi's in them.

[johnny7]

Bullsh_t... they didn't record weather in NYC til 1869.

[Fresh Wind]

...the earlier arrival of spring in the Northern Hemisphere...

Well, I agree that spring was early in January, but it was the shortest spring and summer in recorded history.

[Clioman]

Al Gore discovered Greenland.

[Always Right]

The Viking era was about 1000 years ago. The earth is some 4 billion years old. So they are saying this warming trend is the biggest of the last 0.000025% of the earth's history. Wow, that tells us a lot.

[TheForceOfOne]

Viking Kitties cause global warming zotting trolls.
Doing our part to prevent the next ice age.

[DOGEY]

The Vikings sailed throughout large sections of the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean and while doing so emitted large quantities of flatulence from their ships. During their long journeys beans were a staple of their galleys.

Historians erroneously assert that lands that were visited by Vikings feared the Vikings ferocious violence, looting and raping. This is inaccurate. The Vikings could be smelled coming from several miles away and the victims fled in utter fear of the odor.

It is for this reason apparently that temperatures rose significantly during this period.

Anyone believe this?

[SunkenCiv]

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[dirtboy]

The analysis of data from tree rings, fossil shells, ice cores and actual temperature measurements from 14 locations on three continents shows that the current warming trend is the most extensive change — warm or cold — since the time of the Vikings.

Well, then, we should all celebrate a return to the famine, death, and despair of the onset of the Little Ice Age over the relative prosperity of the Medivial Warm Period - because who cares about the welfare of serfs when polar bears might just be starving somewhere?

[RightWhale]

Why was it warmer during the Viking era? Was it CO2 from burning villages?

[Wiseghy]

Ummmm...except, Greenland still isn't green, at least not yet.

Why is it that we must always point to the obvious when discussing this subject with journalists and "scientists".