Viking Farms Tell Cautionary Climate Tale

NPR ^ | 6-16-2008 | Richard Harris

[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!!!!

[Tulane]

“Nowadays, you can’t find a Viking in Iceland. They intermarried with their Irish slaves, and today they walk the streets as native Icelanders. But hints of their climate’s tumultuous history still show up in Icelandic culture today. “

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So since I have Irish bood, does this mean I can go to Iceland and demand reparations?

[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.

[patton]

From whom? If you have Irish blood, there is a viking in the closet somewhere!

[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.

[DuncanWaring]

Back o’ the line, fella.

[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....

[Dilbert San Diego]

Many years ago, about 1000 A.D. I think, when the Vikings were sailing in that part of the north Atlantic, Greenland was a green land, and got its name from the green landscape. So we know there have been climate changes in the past that had nothing to do with SUVs.

When did the last ice age end, about 10,000 years ago? Couldn’t we say we’ve been having global warming ever since then? Would Al Gore prefer that half of the continental United States be covered by a glacier?

[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.

[peeps36]

I didn't know the Vikings were capable of producing fossil fuels? It's amazing to think that humans have been responsible for such dramatic changes in the global climate. We caused and then melted the Ice Age. I can't figure out how we did this when there were no cars and our population was only a fraction of what it is today. Maybe we could have the Master Of The Universe, Al Gore explain it to us.

[ProudFossil]

“Many years ago, about 1000 A.D. I think, when the Vikings were sailing in that part of the north Atlantic, Greenland was a green land, and got its name from the green landscape. So we know there have been climate changes in the past that had nothing to do with SUVs.”

Actually my understanding of the name Greenland was a real estate scam to entice people to move further west. Although there was arable land there at the time it still was cold and bleak over most of it.

“When did the last ice age end, about 10,000 years ago? Couldn’t we say we’ve been having global warming ever since then? Would Al Gore prefer that half of the continental United States be covered by a glacier?”

Yes he would, the red states (which is actually more than half of the continental United States).

[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