On 25-Feb-2009, at 17:44, Milo Velimirović wrote: > On Feb 25, 2009, at 12:11 PM, LuKreme wrote: >> On Feb 25, 2009, at 10:55, Kevin Callahan <[email protected]> wrote: >>> 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.
Nooo... > 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. Right, they left because the growing cycle got too short. 1300s it was long enough to grow wheat. > 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. What exactly are you correcting? I said all that, just much shorter! -- "The prize is the more I drink the blurrier you get" _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
