On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:11 PM, LuKreme wrote:
On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:55, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/02/25-3
Scientists Find Bigger than Expected Polar Ice Melt
GENEVA - Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting
faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising sea
levels and fuelling climate change, a major scientific survey
showed Wednesday.
The International Polar Year survey found that warming in the
Antarctic is "much more widespread than was thought," while Arctic
sea ice is diminishing and the melting of Greenland's ice cover is
accelerating.
Cool! Maybe soon Greenland's growing cycle will be back to what it
was in the 1300's.
You're off by a few hundred years. The last recorded event of the
Greenlanders was at the beginning of the 1400s -- a wedding in a
church there. One would reasonably assume conditions declined
gradually to the point that the population disappeared.
The 1300s were the end of a several hundred year "warm" period that
led into the last Mini-ice age in Europe that lasted for several
hundred years.
I am not a climatologist nor a historian, but I can pretend to be one
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