Posted on 12/17/2020 12:51:50 PM PST by PAUL09
Do I really need the sarcasm tag?
The article differentiates between glaciers and”ice patches” stating that articles in glaciers usually get ground up by the glacier movement. These ice formations were somehow stationary but they also formed over time to cover the stuff and now are melting back to where they once were or weren’t. The earth has had quite a few warm stretches it seems besides the one we’re supposed to be in now.
Just because we see glaciers there at this time doesn’t mean that there were glaciers back them.
You can’t use what we see now to then hypothesize it was the same in the past.
It shows that in 300 AD there were no socialists trying to gain control over the means of production.
Think about this for a second. GLACIAL MELT exposed artifacts. Which means at one point in time the glacier WAS EXPOSED!! So why the big deal that the glacier is now at a point it once was a long time ago?
Must have been warmer back then...like Greenland
So what is the anomaly? The warm world of the 20th and 21st centuries, or the cold one from which we are emerging.
It appears the ancients enjoyed these ice free passages.
Glaciers move all the time. The snow at the higher elevations creates new layers of ice, the weight of which causes the ice to ‘flow’ down to lower elevations, and eventually the sea. Look at a fjord in Norway or Alaska. The valleys are ‘U’ shaped from the ice retreating in the summer, advancing in the winter. In winter the ice meets the sea and calves into the ocean.
There was a medieval warm period, so it’s entirely possible that Norse settlements were up on a relatively ice-free plateau. Those settlements could be entombed in ice waiting to be found.
in 500’s a major caldera volcano blew off the coast of South America caused weather changes for years possibly many more we dont yet know about not to mention small asteroid hits all over.
“So what is the anomaly? The warm world of the 20th and 21st centuries, or the cold one from which we are emerging.”
There is no anomaly. That’s how it is. Like saying what is the anomaly - summer or winter? On a time scale though, during the last million years or whatever, the earth has been cold for the vast majority of time, with 5 or 6 “short” peaks of warm periods. Geologically, we are still in the “ice age”.
The Dunning-Kruger affect for most liberals
A lot of it anyway.
What is not volcano.
Roman Warm Period, 250 BC - 400 AD, warmer than it is now in an overall 10,000-year Holocene cooling.
Cooling sucks immediately when it happens. Marginal crops fail in one year.
So, the ice patch was already melting in 1974. Wasn’t that about when the earth was globally cooling leading to our collective deaths?
ping for follow up to see if my comment on the website was actually posted
Maybe I’m reading it wrong, if I am then I apologize. 300 A.D. was not the Viking age, that wouldn’t start until almost 500 years later. I question a study that doesn’t have a basic fact like that correct.
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