Greenland is getting greener and Iceland’s ice is shrinking. The Arctic is losing its chill. According to Dr. Hans Ahlmann, professor of geography at Stockholm University, all the cold lands around the northernmost Atlantic are entering a balmier climatological era.
Dr. Ahlmann has been collecting evidence from a variety of sources: temperature records, glaciers, trees, fish. In the Scandinavian countries, he says, the winters have been getting milder since the 19th Century.
In the heyday of the Vikings, before 1300 A.D., the populous republic of Iceland lived largely by agriculture; the Norse raised sheep in Greenland, where no sheep graze today. After 1300, the cold crept down and the Icelanders gave up farming. The Greenlanders were exterminated, perhaps by starvation, perhaps by glacier-fleeing Eskimos. Now that the tide has turned, Dr. Ahlmann, a good Norseman, hopes the warm cycle will last for at least a few centuries.
h/t to Jimbo
We tend to think that ‘science’ is more than it really is….
…. especially young people
Truth is, climate science has been left in the past.
Nothing has changed.
The very best they can do is identify trends, and project what they think might happen “if this trend continues”.
Nothing more than glorified weathermen. Who get credit for three day predictions, because the shorter the time frame, the better the odds are that “if this trend continues”…………………..