[opendtv] Re: Off topic: Researchers uncover potent greenhouse gas

Allen Le Roy Limberg wrote:
The Vikings raised cattle and horses in Greenland. 

Yes. Just consider the country's name.

However, as mentioned in this link
http://www.miqel.com/reading_library/archived_stories/ice-age-global-warming-alert.html
the Little Ice Age chilled Greenland ending the Viking's stay there.
"The Little Ice Age - actually three distinct cooling periods - chilled northern Europe and parts of the United States. It sent the Vikings back to Europe from their outposts in Greenland. Farms in Norway were covered with glaciers and crop failures around Europe caused famines and spikes in grain prices." 

More about the Viking's retreat home here:
http://www.geology.um.maine.edu/ges121/lectures/11-little-ice-age/little-ice-age.html
"Perhaps hardest hit were the Norse settlements in Iceland and Greenland. The population of famine-ridden Iceland dwindled during the Little Ice Age to half its previous numbers.
Greenlanders fared even worse. Growing sea ice cut off communication with the outside world beginning about 1370, and when German ships landed in Greenland more than a century later, they found a single frozen corpse but no living colonists among the ruins." 


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