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Thread #128127 Message #2865270
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
16-Mar-10 - 11:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Some Idiots in South Dakota Legislation
Subject: RE: BS: Some Idiots in South Dakota Legislation
During the Little Climatic Optimum, Erik the Red settled Greenland where they farmed and raised dairy cattle.
True.
Today, ninety percent of Greenland is covered by massive ice sheets, in many places more than two miles thick.
Also true. BUT! The two statements have nothing to do with each other.
The Greenland colony occupied a tiny strip at the south end of the west coast of Greenland, which was not glacier-covered and was farmable, after a fashion. And yes, ninety percent (give or take; I'll accept that figure arguendo) of Greenland is NOW glacier covered, but at that time most of Greenland was glacier-covered then, too.
No conclusion as to global warming can validly be drawn from that paragraph.