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The temperature was only 1 to 2.5°C warmer than pre-industrial levels the last time Greenland was ice free.
WHEN was Greenland "ice free" (assuming you aren't counting mountain tops)?
A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA - Nature
Analysis of two-million-year-old ancient environmental DNA from the Kap København Formation in North Greenland shows there was an open boreal forest with diverse plant and animal species, of which several taxa have not previously been detected at the site, representing an ecosystem that has no...
"is located in Peary Land, North Greenland"
The entire land mass Greenland save mountain tops was ice free 2 million years ago. We don't know how many layers of DNA were scraped off by ice that were on top of that. Greenland may very well have been ice free 1 million years ago. Greenland's ice age started 1-2 million years ago from the very northern top and moved south....
Middle of Greenland went from green to ice age 450k-800k years ago
Ancient Greenland Was Actually Green
Greenland was once carpeted in lush forests, a new study shows.
"The DNA is proof that sometime between 450,000 and 800,000 years ago, much of Greenland was especially green and covered in a boreal forest that was home to alder, spruce and pine trees, as well as insects such as butterflies and beetles."
And we know the Vikings called it GREENland because when they settled the southern tip it was green. It isn't anymore. That's the timeline for how Greenland went from completely green to continent specific ice age now. It took at least 1 million years for the ice age to move 1000 miles, about a mile every thousand years, SLOW, GLACIAL, duh....