Global warming biggest since Viking era

Cox News Service ^ | Friday, February 10, 2006 | MIKE TONER

[Westlander]

"Our research doesn't prove that increased CO2 is currently causing global warming, but oxygen isotopic measurements of ancient Earth temperatures suggest that this has caused global warming in Earth's past."

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/12/021211084123.htm

[tubebender]

Let's all go live in unheated, unairconditoned mud huts, wear grass skirts, scavenge for "organic" raw food, walk everywhere and save "the environment" for "the children".

You have described the dope growers of Humboldt County perfectly...

[truemiester]

The Vikings caused global warming then caused the earth to cool down again. How? Plundering and looting. Setting towns on fire cause global warming. settleing down to count their loot with the pretty maidens they captured caused the earth to cool. We are not doing enough looting. Need to start now. Being the worlds nice guy is going to destroy the earth!
Nice rant, eh?

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

It wasn't the Vikings so much as their pets. That's right, the kitties. See, cats like to be warm. And cats, as any cat owner knows, control their humans. Even today. And so, though it was long ago in a faraway land, it was done.

[mugs99]

climate "proxies"

Climate proxies are the proof talked about in Aliens Cause Global Warming.
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[bboop]

Methane?

[GSHastings]

Global warming is cause by 1.8 billion Muslims, 1 billion Chinese, 1 billion Indians, and 300 million South Americans all driving crappy, non emission controlled cars, burning all their trees for charcoal and all those Europeans driving diesel cars spewing noxious fumes and all the cow, sheep, camel, bean and goat farts.

And anyone who has been in almost any country outside of the USA knows that what you say is the truth.

[SALChamps03]

Maybe it was their diet?

[quantim]

Awesome, but you forgot volcanoes and the generations they kill, lol!

[Candor7]

Global Schwarming? Chicken Littles.

[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.

[tomjohn77]

The Chinese fleet have never sailed around Greenland. Leiv Eriksson lived around 1000 years ago.

[Clioman]

"consider that the Chinese fleet of the 1420's sailed around Greenland during" Could you please souce this?

The book is called "1421" by Gavin Menzies...the argument is fascinating -- draws upon multiple oddities in the historical record. Perhaps over-reaching in some ways, but certainly interesting reading.

[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.