Greenland really is melting - two independent studies confirm

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/11/greenland-20091115.html

by chrisb • 17 years ago

12 3 17 years ago

Maybe now farming and ranching will be viable there again, as it was when the Vikings were living there.

camccann• 17 years ago

I know you're probably joking, but for the record: Greenland was marginally more livable during the medieval warm period, but even so farming and ranching were only barely viable and the Norse settlers never ventured very far north or inland. The... very optimistic name "Greenland" (directly translated from Old Norse) was chosen by Erik the Red because "people would be eager to go there if it had a good name", proving that even Vikings cared about marketing and branding.

The vast bulk of the ice sheets predate human civilization and weathered the warm period comfortably; the modern melting situation isn't really comparable.

KevinMS• 17 years ago

"The vast bulk of the ice sheets predate human civilization and weathered the warm period comfortably; the modern melting situation isn't really comparable."

What is your evidence that, this time, the ice wont "weather the warm period comfortably"?

It was warmer in greenland back in the viking days than it is now, but the ice melt is not really comparable? Was the warmth then not really the same quality warmth we have now?

Greenland really is melting - two independent studies confirm

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