What would Eric the Red say about the efforts to keep Greenland surrounded with ice?

Question

When Eric came to this new land around 985AD, he colonized it and named it for its greeny-ness (as opposed to the icy-ness of Iceland). So what would Eric say about trying to keep it iced over for the sake of justifying the hockey-stick theory?

Answer 1

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Actually, Eric might
smack you in the gob
though, for insinuating
he is an imbecile.
He was an adventurer,
and as such, understood
the environment, he
knew a window of
opportunity opened,
and he seized it with
both hands.
The descendants at
Gardar certainly
understood the power
of the environment,
and the potential for
rapid change.
They even ate their prized
hunting dogs, which were
irreplaceable.
They adopted ignorance,
and they perished, every
last man woman child.
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Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

Answer 2

inga dinga duurgen

Answer 3

Now you guys are worried about what a viking says about global warming??? Perfect!!!

Answer 4

Eric might not have been too concerned about several billion people suffering from drought and starvation as a result of global warming, but we are.

Answer 5

Ice huggers may cry when a ice melts but the remainder of sane humans are probably glad that something can now grow where there was once ice. It certainly isn't melting at an alarming rate. That is just more alarmist fantansy.

Icarus dreams up fantasy droughts caused by little old ladies in Kansas driving SUVs. News Flash: Droughts were around before the dinosaurs lived and have been around since.

Answer 6

He would shish-ka-bob the MMGW idiots as opposed to pacifying them as our socialist media does.

There is no warming- the only warming in the last 70 years was from 1975 to 1998 as determined by all 4 global tracking org's:
http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Mon…

Hence the transion to CC...

And since the buffoon Hansen's claim of 1998 as the hottest US year was a product of incompetant math (or outright lies), new dubious "blended" global data has been substitued by the tools:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/storie…

Slight CO2 escalation has FOLLOWED warming during every interglacial transition on record:

http://www.mises.org/story/2571
And exactly what has happened since the little ice 500 years ago.

Hence the transition to "feedback loops"...

The "consensus" was actually FIVE UN tools whose corrections were ignored by UN politicians:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/art…
UN IPCC Expert Reviewer Madhav Khandekar, was not pleased by the disingenuous political tripe packaged as science:

“To my dismay, IPCC authors ignored all my comments and suggestions for major changes in the FOD (First Order Draft) and sent me the SOD (Second Order Draft) with essentially the same text as the FOD. None of the authors of the chapter bothered to directly communicate with me (or with other expert reviewers with whom I communicate on a regular basis) on many issues that were raised in my review. This is not an acceptable scientific review process.”

And many more:

Geologist/Geochemist Dr. Tom V. Segalstad, also a former expert reviewer with the U.N. IPCC, succinctly summarizes:

“It is all a fiction.”

Another UN IPCC expert reviewer, Dr. David Wojick:

“The public is not well served by this constant drumbeat of false alarms fed by computer models manipulated by advocates.”

Climate researcher Dr Vincent Gray, an expert reviewer on every draft of the IPCC:

“The claims of the IPCC are dangerous unscientific nonsense. There is no actual scientific evidence for all these projections and estimates. It should be obvious that they are ridiculous.

After reviewing a new study to be released in the Journal of Geophysical Research, “Heat Capacity, Time Constant, and Sensitivity of Earth’s Climate System,” astronomer Dr. Ian Wilson of the Hubble Space Telescope Institute summarized:

“Anthropogenic global warming bites the dust.

Former Harvard physicist Dr. Lubos Motl indicated in August of 2007 that recent research has reduced proponents of man-made climate fears to:

“Playing the children’s game to scare each other.

Dr. Oleg Sorochtin a scientist of the Institute of Oceanography at the Russian Academy of Sciences, author of more than 300 studies and nine books, concludes:

“Even if the concentration of ‘greenhouse gases’ double man would not perceive the temperature impact”:

The entire change in CO2 after 120 years in industrialized humanity is a MEANINGLESS 1/100th of 1 percent- .028-.038 of 1 percent:
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/Carbon…

Meanwhile- nearly all credible scientists willing to place their rep on the line call MMGW a fraud:

Hence the MMGW marionettes fake "studies" of anonymous scientists...

More than 31,000 scientists have signed this petition demonstrating direct correlation between solar irradiance and earth's temp. They- and many others also show that CO2 levels have been more than 400% higher BEFORE fossil fuels.
PR Research: http://www.petitionproject.org/gw_articl…

Qualifications include: Atmosphere, Earth, & Environment (3,803), Computers & Math (935), Physics & Aerospace (5,810), Chemistry (4,818):
http://www.petitionproject.org/qualifica…

700 distinguished scientists have petitioned the Senate calling MMGW a fraud:
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?F…
Record_id=2674e64f-802a-23ad-490b-bd9f…

!00 more leading scientists petitioned the UN- many of them claimed by Gore to be part of his nonsensical UN consensus:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php…

These scientists show DIRECT correlation fron solar irradiance and earth's temp- what a shock!

Habibullo Abdussamatov, head of space research at Russia's Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory says the Mars data is yet more evidence that the current global warming on Earth is being caused by changes in the Sun.:

"The long-term increase in solar irradiance is heating both Earth and Mars."

Dr. Spencer- senior NASA climatologist as opposed to modeler, confirms:

“There has never been a single scientific paper published that has ruled out natural climate variability for most of our warming,”

Anyone spewing MMGW "consensus" or "science" is lying or breathtakingly ignorant

Answer 7

The place where Eric the Red settled is pretty much the same today

http://www.greenland-guide.dk/reg-south.…

"A local supermarket in Greenland is stocking fresh locally grown cauliflower, broccoli, and cabbage for the first time."

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/eco…

Not sure where you get this idea that all of Greenland was fertile paradise in 985AD.

Answer 8

I think that first you have to get the man made climate change people to believe history. Since they ignore written history and historical fact to push their faulty science they will not care about what actually was. Eric the Red and the other Vikings would have established more settlements in the New World if the climate didn't start to cool off soon after discovering Greenland and Vineland which is now where Nova Scotia is today.

Answer 9

I think he would laugh at the stupidity of modern liberals.

ICE HUGGERS!!

Dude.. you rock!!

Answer 10

I'm sure Eric the Red was not much into left wing politics and he had his own religion, so the global warming movement political movement and it's spin off, global warming the doomsday cult, would not have interested him in the slightest.

Answer 11

Um, he would probably say it looks about the same now as it did in 983.

The bottom of this link has info on the Vikings in Greenland While the LIA certainly played a part in their decline it is most certainly not the only reason their settlements failed.
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/mandias/lia/…
The fact is the Viking only ever settled in the South and South West coastal regions, areas that are as ice free today as they were then.
http://www.mnh.si.edu/vikings/voyage/sub…

As for his hitting someone, highly likely he was exiled from Iceland after killing several people just as his father had been exiled from Norway for killing someone.
It is thought by many historians that he played up what Greenland was like to get more settlers to go there.

What does it look like today
http://htmlhelp.com/~liam/Greenland/