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Cold snap linked to Viking disappearance

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Cold snap linked to Viking disappearance


World | 206772 hits | Jun 02 7:22 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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OSLO - A cold snap in Greenland in the 12th century may help explain why Viking settlers vanished from the island, scientists said on Monday.

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  1. by avatar andyt
    Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:57 pm
    How is this news, I watched a TV show about this several years ago. The Vikings were not prepared to survive the cold snap, because they could not adapt to the Innuit ways.

    You've got to wonder how shitty things were back home if you decide to settle in Greenland instead.

  2. by avatar BartSimpson  Gold Member
    Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:27 pm
    Well, if the Global Warming thing had worked out the way it was supposed to then they would've done just fine!

  3. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Sat Jun 04, 2011 12:47 am
    Even though Scandinavians are northerners, their winters are very tame by Canadian standards. think snowbelt...really heavy deep snows occasionally but with very mild temps. Arctic conditions were not their norm.

  4. by avatar Caelon
    Sat Jun 04, 2011 4:38 am
    "andyt" said
    How is this news, I watched a TV show about this several years ago. The Vikings were not prepared to survive the cold snap, because they could not adapt to the Innuit ways.

    You've got to wonder how shitty things were back home if you decide to settle in Greenland instead.


    During the Medieval Warm Period temperatures were higher than today. Greenland had productive farms raising crops forage and sheep. It was an attractive area to settle with similar conditions to the Viking homeland. The Little Ice Age from 1350 to 1750 covered the land mass in ice. As the ice has receded in the last 250 years the land along the shore has been exposed once more, but the glacial residue is not the same as the land was during the time of Erik the Red. With continued warming and some land management at some time in the future Greenland may be able to have productive farms once again

  5. by avatar Zipperfish  Gold Member
    Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:08 am
    "Caelon" said


    During the Medieval Warm Period temperatures were higher than today.


    in Greenland? Or everywhere?

  6. by Thanos
    Sat Jun 04, 2011 5:55 am
    This is all crap anyway. Everyone knows that the world climate has been constant and permanent forever without any interruption at all every happening since time began. Or at least it was until whitey invented the internal combustion engine. 8O



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