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HurtinAlbertan wrote:Freeman wrote:I've always wondered when statements are made that global temperatures have increased x degrees over the last 1,000 years, who the hell was taking the temperature 1,000 years ago? Were they better at predicting the weather than Environment Canada?
Well we know for a fact that Greenland and Iceland were warmer 1000 years ago than today. The Vikings actually inhabited and built settlements on Greenland for a few hundred years, before a drop in temperatures sometime during the 13th or 14th century made it virtually impossible to remain there.
I think we already went through this before...Freeman wrote:HurtinAlbertan wrote:Freeman wrote:I've always wondered when statements are made that global temperatures have increased x degrees over the last 1,000 years, who the hell was taking the temperature 1,000 years ago? Were they better at predicting the weather than Environment Canada?
Well we know for a fact that Greenland and Iceland were warmer 1000 years ago than today. The Vikings actually inhabited and built settlements on Greenland for a few hundred years, before a drop in temperatures sometime during the 13th or 14th century made it virtually impossible to remain there.
Exactly. Who was to blame for that?
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