[blam]

GGG Ping.

[San Jacinto]

And I didn't even know the Vikings had SUV's! No wonder they kicked the Limey's a$$!

[Gamecock]

**So the environment here is changing yet again**

Just like it always has....

[heywoodubuzzoff]

And just how much greenhouse gas were the colonies in America producing at the time? Oh, must have been those Chinese and Indians!!!!

[PGR88]

I’ll take some Irish slaves!

[KarlInOhio]

Back then, Iceland's climate was warmer and milder than it is today, and that may have been one reason the Vikings settled there.

Nononononononononono! Al Gore says that today is the hottest day in world history and tomorrow will be hotter still.

[MNJohnnie]

Cannot decide which is more annoying. The complete lack of any sort of knowledge of history among the “global climate change” crowd, or their total lack of even a hint of clue about Economics.

[Argus]

Fridriksson says you might not notice it today, but the climate is warming once again. And local farmers have told him that after centuries of absence, the birch trees are slowly returning. "They said that they imagined that this land would become as it was when it was still untouched by humans, in the Viking period."

Untouched by humans, but warmer.

No, no! That's impossible. The mind reels....

[Question_Assumptions]

I guess the author of this article didn't get the memo from the global warming alarmists that, "We have to get rid of the Medieval Warm Period." They are supposed to claim that it wasn't warmer than today or, if it was, that it was only a localized warmth.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[hellbender]

Back then, Iceland's climate was warmer and milder than it is today, and that may have been one reason the Vikings settled there.

Actually, that warm period probably triggered the whole Viking expansion in Europe. Warmer growing conditions caused a population explosion in Scandinavia, and the surplus went roaming in search of lebensraum.

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Nowadays, you can't find a Viking in Iceland.

They're all off somewhere singing about Spam.

[Wuli]

“Back then, Iceland’s climate was warmer and milder than it is today, and that may have been one reason the Vikings settled there.”

That’s simply impossible. There were no CO2 belching SUVs at the time. /sarc

[SunkenCiv]

The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850 by Brian M. Fagan Paperback

[SunkenCiv]

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[wildbill]

Wasn’t there a ‘little ice age’ that started about the end of the 1200s, probably caused by a comet/asteroid.

As I recall, the event was memorialized all over the world in writings of observers.

An icelandic farm would have become virtually unusable for crops during a year or two of perpetual darkness caused by ash in the atmosphere.