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Re: Climate Change - record World temp. rises in Feb.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
It was once consistently warm enough in Norway to grow grape vines and produce wine. Greenland was once Green, not white. The dramatic changes since then, occurred in recent history.
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Ahem...
https://www.skepticalscience.com/gre...o-be-green.htm
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Scientists have estimated that the Greenland ice sheet is between 400,000 and 800,000 years old. This means that the island today is unlikely to have been markedly different when Europeans settled there. However, there is evidence that the settled areas were warmer than today, with large birch woodlands providing both timber and fuel. This warmth coincided with the period known as the Medieval Climatic Anomaly, also known as the Medieval Warm Period, which we will discuss below.
So how did Greenland get its name? According to the Icelandic sagas, Erik the Red named it Greenland in an attempt to lure settlers in search of land and the promise of a better life. However, the age of the ice sheet, which is more than 3 kilometres thick in places and covers 80% of Greenland, proves that the opportunities to establish communities would have been limited to rather small areas.
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Do you have a link re historical growing of grape vines in Norway, please?
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