greenland is called greenland for a reason !

[GHook93]

Greenland was called Greenland to trick people to coming to it! It's been a frozen tundra every since man discovered it.

 

[RollingThunder]

World-Mysteries.com

And the explanation for the ancient maps correctly showing Greenland as 2 large Islands under the current ice sheet is....?

The explanation is that you're citing a junk science site that just makes stuff up. Greenland is not two large islands under the ice. That's just ignorant bullshit. Or, in other words, another one of your usual braindead posts.

 

[lehr]

it was once - GREEN ! dah !

Are you retarded? Seriously! Are you freaking retarded?

Greenland Vikings

In 960, Thorvald Asvaldsson of Jaederen in Norway killed a man. He was forced to leave the country so he moved to northern Iceland. He had a ten year old son named Eric, later to be called Eric Röde, or Eric the Red. Eric too had a violent streak and in 982 he killed two men. Eric the Red was banished from Iceland for three years so he sailed west to find a land that Icelanders had discovered years before but knew little about. Eric searched the coast of this land and found the most hospitable area, a deep fiord on the southwestern coast. Warmer Atlantic currents met the island there and conditions were not much different than those in Iceland (trees and grasses.) He called this new land "Greenland" because he "believed more people would go thither if the country had a beautiful name," according to one of the Icelandic chronicles (Hermann, 1954) although Greenland, as a whole, could not be considered "green." Additionally, the land was not very good for farming.

Greenland ice sheet
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Greenland Ice Sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1,710,000 square kilometres (660,235 sq mi), roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. ...The ice in the current ice sheet is as old as 110,000 years.[3] It is generally thought that the Greenland Ice Sheet formed in the late Pliocene or early Pleistocene by coalescence of ice caps and glaciers. It did not develop at all until the late Pliocene, but apparently developed very rapidly with the first continental glaciation.

this planet was once a molten ball of fire and then a solid ball of ice and everything in between - who is to say what temp. the earth should be at ???

It's not a matter of "should be", dumbass. It's a matter of what temperature ranges will continue to support our world agricultural bases and what temperature increases will destroy our world agricultural bases and plunge the world into mass starvation, death and wars over dwindling resources.

its ok ! i know im good !

it's still nuts ! we know you're a retard !

i got an idea ! - lets pass laws that you have to have your thermostat controlled by the govt....this way we can save the planet ---oh wait - that is happening !

 

[logical4u]

it was once - GREEN ! dah !

this planet was once a molten ball of fire and then a solid ball of ice and everything in between - who is to say what temp. the earth should be at ???


its ok ! i know im good !

There is ice thousands of years old on top of greenland. It was never green, not in human existence anyway.

Why are the archeologists studying the Viking settlements that were there... farms?

 

[RWatt]

it was once - GREEN ! dah !

this planet was once a molten ball of fire and then a solid ball of ice and everything in between - who is to say what temp. the earth should be at ???


its ok ! i know im good !

There is ice thousands of years old on top of greenland. It was never green, not in human existence anyway.

Why are the archeologists studying the Viking settlements that were there... farms?

There are farms in greenland today. Settlements are at the coast.
Map of Greenland - Nations Online Project

 

[Old Rocks]

Even at the best of times the colonies on Greenland were marginal. For real information on the colonies, read Jared Diamond's "Collapse".

 

[lehr]

There is ice thousands of years old on top of greenland. It was never green, not in human existence anyway.

sooo - they called " GREENLAND " - " GREENLAMD " beacuse there was snow on some mountain ? - ok - i get it ! people how think like that should hold their breath - just to cut the carbon that they exhale !

You're a liberal sockpuppet here to troll and make conservatives look stupid, right?

hold your breath --- ill tell u

 

[westwall]

Even at the best of times the colonies on Greenland were marginal. For real information on the colonies, read Jared Diamond's "Collapse".

"Collapse" is poor reporting at best and biased in the extreme. The colonies existed for 500 years.....that's twice as long as the US has been around. I don't think that qualifies as poor. They were also able to send out their own colonization expeditions something no "marginal" group could ever hope to accomplish.

They were also able to support a cathedral, a seminary, a nunnery and 12 churches. It takes a great amount of wealth to accomplish that.

 

[lehr]

when saddam lit all those oil wells - the communist left in amerika said nothing - but if we want to drill for oil - the left tells us we r destroying the planet

 

[lehr]

because saddam was a socialist collectivist ! that is why our communist greens in amerika gave him a pass ! this green stuff is all political !

 

[ScienceRocks]

 

[Zander]

Everyone knows that the internal combustion engines that were polluting the planet 1000 years ago were outlawed, and because of swift government intervention the Greenland ice grew back.

 

[Old Rocks]

Zander, senile old boy, have you ever considered saying even one thing showing some intellect?

 

[hortysir]

The Vikings called Greenland Greenland in the hopes of keeping settlers and explorers away from Iceland which they wanted for themselves.

Yeps...
Greenland is Icy
Iceland is green

Saw both from the bow of our ship

 

[westwall]

Zander, senile old boy, have you ever considered saying even one thing showing some intellect?

As usual sarcasm flies right on over your head

 

[Zander]

What we really need are government regulations that force mankind to go back to horses for transportation; candles for lighting, and telegraphs for communications. The Internal Combustion Engine, Electricity, and cell phones are ruining the planet.

 

[waltky]

possum got his lil' two-horned Viking hat on fer Halloween...

Viking Buried With Axe, Sword and Spear Found With Fully Intact Viking Boat Burial in UK
ScienceDaily (Oct. 23, 2011) — The UK mainland's first fully intact Viking boat burial site has been discovered by archaeologists working in the Scottish Highlands. The 5m-long grave contained the remains of a high status Viking, who was buried with an axe, a sword with a beautifully decorated hilt, a spear, shield boss and bronze ring-pin.

The Viking had been buried in a ship, whose 200 or so metal rivets were also found by the team. The 1,000-year-old find, on the remote Ardnamurchan Peninsula, was made by the Ardnamurchan Transitions Project (ATP) which is a team led by experts from the Universities of Manchester, Leicester, CFA Archaeology Ltd and Archaeology Scotland Funded this season by The University of Manchester, Newcastle University and The Leverhulme Trust, the project brings together students and academics at what may be one of Britain's most significant Viking sites.

Other finds included a knife, what could be the tip of a bronze drinking horn, a whetstone from Norway, a ring pin from Ireland and Viking pottery. Dozens of pieces of iron yet to be identified by the team were also found at the site, which has now been fully excavated. Co-Director of the project and archaeology Teaching Fellow Dr Hannah Cobb, from The University of Manchester, has over the past six years been excavating artefacts in the Ardnamurchan Peninsula underpinning 6,000 years of its history.

Dr Cobb said: "This is a very exciting find. Though we have excavated many important artefacts over the years, I think it's fair to say that this year the archaeology has really exceeded our expectations. "A Viking boat burial is an incredible discovery, but in addition to that, the artefacts and preservation make this one of the most important Norse graves ever excavated in Britain. "Viking Specialist Dr Colleen Batey from The University of Glasgow, has said the boat is likely to be from the tenth century AD.

The team believe the site is also the first intact pagan Norse grave of its kind to have been excavated in mainland Scotland for 30 years and the first ever on the West Coast Mainland. But the site has yielded other riches over the years, including an Iron Age fort from between 2500 to 1500 years ago this year.

More Viking buried with axe, sword and spear found with fully intact Viking boat burial in UK