BBC Reports On The Undeath Spiral – And Massacres Their Native Tounge

10 Responses to BBC Reports On The Undeath Spiral – And Massacres Their Native Tounge

1. Sleepalot says:

   August 4, 2011 at 9:50 pm

   It is no accident that the words “were higher” are missing. They were removed because they don’t fit the alarmist narrative.

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2. Bill Williams says:

   August 4, 2011 at 10:01 pm

   Indeed. That whole paragraph has now been edited to

   “Writing in the journal Science, the team found evidence that ice levels were about 50% lower 5,000 years ago.”

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3. Grumpy Grampy ;) says:

   August 4, 2011 at 10:04 pm

   I read about this type of research years ago!
   Here:
   http://climateaudit.org/2007/01/09/ward-hunt-ice-shelf-stratigraphy/

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4. Sleepalot says:

   August 4, 2011 at 10:36 pm

   I’m not sure about that 50% sea-level. Does that have any meaning (outside of a model with a uniformly flat-bottomed ocean)?

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   • Sleepalot says:

     August 4, 2011 at 11:25 pm

     Ah, it’s sea-ice levels – a different thing. Sorry.

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5. naturalclimate says:

   August 5, 2011 at 1:21 am

   Greenland is a block of ice. They only named it Greenland to fool people into moving there instead of Iceland, which really IS green. Julienne says so:

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEmjhysbh9khttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEmjhysbh9k

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   • Grumpy Grampy ;) says:

     August 5, 2011 at 2:05 am

     If a person wants respect they should at least not make stupid claims such as this! Real scientific research shows that claim to be a lie! A real scientist would know the history of the region they were studying!

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     • Tony Duncan says:

       August 5, 2011 at 2:39 am

       Grumpy,
       good to know you can still be outraged even though you think scientists are lying all the time anyway!

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   • Blade says:

     August 5, 2011 at 11:38 am

     Greenland is a block of ice. They only named it Greenland to fool people into moving there instead of Iceland, which really IS green. Julienne says so:

     Well that is certainly not settled science. Even Wikipedia has it in conflict …

     Etymology

     The name Greenland comes from the early Scandinavian settlers. In the Icelandic sagas, it is said that Norwegian-born Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder. He, along with his extended family and thralls, set out in ships to find a land rumoured to lie to the northwest. After settling there, he named the land Grønland (“Greenland”), supposedly in the hope that the pleasant name would attract settlers.[7][8]

     Greenland was also called Gruntland (“Ground-land”) and Engronelant (or Engroneland) on early maps. Whether green is an erroneous transcription of grunt (“ground”), which refers to shallow bays, or vice versa, is not known. The southern portion of Greenland (not covered by glaciers) is relatively green in the summer.

     I think she is jumping the gun on this by spreading the myth version exclusively. Particularly since the vikings got there in warmer times (Wikipedia again) …

     Norse settlement

     From 986 AD, Greenland’s west coast was colonised by Icelanders and Norwegians in two settlements on fjords near the southwestern-most tip of the island.[9] They shared the island with the late Dorset culture inhabitants who occupied the northern and eastern parts, and later with the Thule culture arriving from the north. Norse Greenlanders submitted to Norwegian rule in the 13th century, and the kingdom of Norway entered into a personal union with Denmark in 1380 and from 1397 was a part of the Kalmar Union.[10]

     The settlements, such as Brattahlíð, thrived for centuries but disappeared some time in the 15th century, perhaps at the onset of the Little Ice Age.[11] Interpretation of ice core and clam shell data suggests that between 800 and 1300 AD the regions around the fjords of southern Greenland experienced a relatively mild climate several degrees Celsius higher than usual in the North Atlantic,[12] with trees and herbaceous plants growing and livestock being farmed. Barley was grown as a crop up to the 70th degree.[13] What is verifiable is that the ice cores indicate Greenland has experienced dramatic temperature shifts many times over the past 100,000 years.[14] Similarly the Norse Book of Settlements records famines during the winters in which “the old and helpless were killed and thrown over cliffs”.

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6. John Silver says:

   August 5, 2011 at 9:14 am

   “They say changes to wind systems can slow down the rate of melting.”

   Whoda thunk it. They’re fricking geniuses.

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