Monthly Archives: August 2011

The remains of the farms and churches of the Norse are found throughout South Greenland. The large granite and sandstone blocks at the ruins have many good stories to tell. The oldest is about Erik the Red who was banished … Continue reading →

During the MWP Figure 14: Sedges, grasses, and dwarf woodlands of birch and willow. (Source: McGovern and Perdikaris, 2000) Animal bones and other materials collected from archaeological sites reveal Icelandic Vikings had large farmsteads with dairy cattle (a source of … Continue reading →

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Greenland must have frozen very quickly at the end of the non-existent MWP. http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Two days ago, the always reliable Guardian said this : Spitsbergen harbour used to be icebound for most of the year http://trove.nla.gov.au/

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Historians made the horrific mistake of consulting written records, rather than three trees in Siberia. http://trove.nla.gov.au/

Arrhenius had estimated that doubling the amount of the gas would cause global temperatures to rise by 5C-6C. Extraordinarily, that is almost exactly the conclusion reached by today’s scientists, armed with superfast supercomputers – which has led to the giant … Continue reading →

A good view of Hansen’s powerful El Nino, and all the hot water driving this year’s record hurricane season. http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst_anom.gif

I introduced a new rock – Franklin – the other day, but he seems to have disappeared overnight.