Climate Skeptics See 'Smoking Gun' in Researchers' Leaked E-Mails

Strucky · 11-30-09, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Gill

Not true. There were Norse settlements throughout the lower third of Greenland. There is proof that they farmed and raised cattle there for hundreds of years, until it became too cold for the crops and livestock.

You bring up an excellent point-

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From 986 AD, Greenland's west coast was colonised by Icelanders and Norwegians in two settlements on fjords near the southwestern-most tip of the island.They shared the island with the late Dorset culture inhabitants who occupied the northern and eastern parts, and later with the Thule culture arriving from the north. The settlements, such as Brattahlið, thrived for centuries but disappeared some time in the 15th century, perhaps at the onset of the Little Ice Age. Interpretation of ice core data suggests that between 800 and 1300 AD the regions around the fjords of southern Greenland experienced a mild climate, with trees and herbaceous plants growing and livestock being farmed. What is verifiable is that the ice cores indicate Greenland has experienced dramatic temperature shifts many times over the past 100,000 years — which makes it possible to say that areas of Greenland may have been much warmer during the medieval period than they are now and that the ice sheet contracted significantly.

Greenland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

EpicDude86 · 11-30-09, 02:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Kernel Sanders

It's rather difficult to politicize atmospheric C02 concentrations or satellite measurements of sea ice extent.

If you're not the one taking the measurements or reading them exactly, there's a lot of places between you and the recording of that data where politics and 'human error' wink wink can take its toll.

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