Real Climate Science

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 from Iceland in 982.

Back then, the climate was milder than it is today.

http://www.greenland-guide.dk/pdf/southgreenland-uk.pdf

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 meat), pigs, and sheep and goats (for wool, hair, milk, and meat.) Farmsteads also had ample pastures and fields of barley used for the making of beer and these farms were located near bird cliffs (providing meat, eggs, and eiderdown) and inshore fishing grounds. Fishing was primarily done with hand lines or from small boats that did not venture across the horizon

http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/

Today

http://www.hotelarctic.com/om_hotel_arctic/webcam/

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

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/

http://trove.nla.gov.au/

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 climate summit, to be attended by more than 100 heads of government, that opens in Copenhagen on Monday.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/

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.