On Feb 25, 2009, at 11:59 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On 25-Feb-2009, at 17:44, Milo Velimirović wrote: >> On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:11 PM, LuKreme wrote: >>> On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:55, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> The International Polar Year survey found that warming in the >>>> Antarctic is "much more widespread than was thought," while Arctic >>>> sea ice is diminishing and the melting of Greenland's ice cover is >>>> accelerating. >>> Cool! Maybe soon Greenland's growing cycle will be back to what it >>> was in the 1300's. >> You're off by a few hundred years. > > Nooo... > >> The last recorded event of the Greenlanders was at the beginning of >> the 1400s -- a wedding in a church there. One would reasonably >> assume conditions declined gradually to the point that the >> population disappeared. > > Right, they left because the growing cycle got too short. 1300s it > was long enough to grow wheat. ? > >> The 1300s were the end of a several hundred year "warm" period that >> led into the last Mini-ice age in Europe that lasted for several >> hundred years. > > What exactly are you correcting? I said all that, just much shorter! Your dates. The good years of Viking settlement in Greenland were before the 1300s. By the middle of the 1300s they had already abandoned the West settlement. > > > -- > "The prize is the more I drink the blurrier you get" > > _______________________________________________ > OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] > http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters > List hosted at http://cat5.org/
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