Climate Change

[jem]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

It’s not a good thing that a growing sector of the population is skeptical these days by pronouncements by scientists. They were much more diligent before the war and everything got rigorously peer reviewed before theories were published. What happened?

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It’s also pertinent to remember that ships once passed by Greenland when the sea was free of ice altogether, and yet if that happened now, everyone would be up in arms that something had to be done about it as it’s all our fault!

Sorry what, the seas around Greenland have been free of permanent ice for millennia. They still are.

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by jem

Sorry what, the seas around Greenland have been free of permanent ice for millennia. They still are.

The Norse people farmed land on Greenland, which is too cold now to enable that.

The point I’m making is that there was previously a Medieval warm period, which ended around the 12th century, and the Little Ice Age followed, which ended around 1850. During that period, thickening sea ice between Iceland and Greenland made travel very difficult.

The climate changes and causes significant disruption to lives which can be relatively sudden - a bit like we’re going through right now.

It was not a proper (Global) Ice Age, just a slightly cooler period in the North.
It is believed to have been caused partly by Volcanic activity, changing ocean currents, and possibly lower solar output.

Much like the preceeding warmer period, it was just a slight variation in part of the planet, for a few hundred years, not global.

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

The Norse people farmed land on Greenland, which is too cold now to enable that.

The point I’m making is that there was previously a Medieval warm period, which ended around the 12th century, and the Little Ice Age followed, which ended around 1850. During that period, thickening sea ice between Iceland and Greenland made travel very difficult.

The climate changes and causes significant disruption to lives which can be relatively sudden - a bit like we’re going through right now.

Funny I thought they farmed the sheltered sub artic fjords there, same as they did in Iceland

[OLD BOY]

Originally Posted by Paul

It was not a proper (Global) Ice Age, just a slightly cooler period in the North.
It is believed to have been caused partly by Volcanic activity, changing ocean currents, and possibly lower solar output.

Much like the preceeding warmer period, it was just a slight variation in part of the planet, for a few hundred years, not global.

Yes, that indeed seems to be the case. But it shows how non man made events can lead to significant changes on the planet.

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Funny I thought they farmed the sheltered sub artic fjords there, same as they did in Iceland

You are correct that a small amount of farming takes place now, but it is restricted to 37 animal farms that are concentrated in sheltered southern coastal fjords near Narsaq, Qaqortoq and Nanortalik.

Norse settlers used the clement weather around 985 CE to establish farms, but following the transition to the Little Ice Age, farming became drastically harder, shortening the growing season to a point where crops failed to yield seeds, eventually forcing the Norse colonies to collapse or abandon agriculture for marine hunting.

To answer your point, yes, modern contemporary farming has addressed the cold-weather limitations that currently exist, although modern farmers still face occasional challenges like summer droughts.

[1andrew1]

Originally Posted by OLD BOY

They would say that, wouldn’t they? And I find it strange that you rubbish an article because it was ‘shared’ by Richard Tice.

Follow the money. Tice is a fossil fuel flunky who shares one-sided articles. The original source is the best.