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MutantMandias Perverse and Often Baffling
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Are you a reporter? Contact me for a UE interview! Also not averse to the the idea of group/anal.
| | | | Re: Global Warming! < Reply # 1 on 6/11/2007 4:04 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | The problem is people like you, who have accepted the misguided and deliberately misleading argument that Global Warming is the issue. People who want to continue to pollute and want to continue to make money by carelessly exploiting resources without concern for the future have claimed that Global Warming is hogwash and ridiculous. Okay, fine, but Global Warming is not the problem. The problem is Climate Change. which describes temperature increases and decreases, extreme weather, and oceanic current changes, among other things. Climate Change is what has the potential to kill us, not Global Warming. And, by the way, the vikings did indeed drink some milk in Greenland during the Medieval Warm Period (MWP), but it wasn't quite sultry. They couldn't subsistence farm. They were there as an unhappy outpost for trade, not because of the sunbathing. They traded fucking polar bears for god's sake. And they didn't leave because of an ice age. It did get a little chillier again, but, more importantly, the Plague reduced trade opportunities, and therefore their method and purpose for survival in such a harsh environment. http://discovermag...0/mar/featvanishedSettling Greenland posed a formidable challenge. There are no trees large enough to produce timber for shelter or fuel. The only wood is small brush and driftwood. The Vikings settled inland, on fjords resembling those of their homeland. There they built homes of driftwood, stone, and sod. For adequate insulation, the walls of some buildings were made six to 10 feet thick. The summer was too short to farm grain crops, so settlers probably went without beer or bread. Although they farmed domesticated animals imported from Europe--goats, sheep, cattle--the settlers ate them sparingly, relying instead on secondary products, such as milk and cheese. In the early days, the Greenlanders' lives differed little from those of their compatriots in Scandinavia. They netted fish and hunted seal and caribou. They wove clothing from wool and linen, sometimes adding the fur of the arctic hare. Some materials used to make their clothing were exotic, such as bison hair that likely came from trade with Native Americans. For about two centuries, Greenland's Vikings had the country to themselves. Yet life was by no means easy, and they relied on a fragile trade with Scandinavia to survive. In exchange for iron, timber, and grain from Europe, they traded pelts of bear and arctic fox as well as narwhale tusks and rope made of walrus hide. Whalebone, too, was traded to Europeans for use in stiffening clothes. According to one account, the Greenlanders even traded live polar bears. At some point during the fourteenth century, Greenland's climate grew colder. With the climate change, glaciers began creeping over the land, bringing with them a runoff of sand, silt, and gravel. That runoff slowly robbed the settlers of valuable pastureland. To make matters worse, says Danish archaeologist Jette Arneborg, the Black Death had decimated Norway, wiping out nearly two thirds of the population. The plague hit Iceland, too, killing some 30 percent. Although there is still no evidence the sickness reached Greenland, archaeologists believe it left its mark by curtailing the flourishing trade.
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