Nelson and Cook sitting in a tree...

[sherlock2040]

I read an interesting article in The Sun today (yes I was reading The Sun, I'm sure you can all work out why...) The Met Office and some other people have examined Cook and Nelson's log entries and noticed that they were experiencing a similar period of global warmings, because it was the 1730s they think it's unlikely that it's man-made. Also they

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[elena_c]

re global warming, here's a fun fact: Around 250 AD, the ceremonial garb of Germanic priests consisted of scarcely more than a loincloth. It was *really* warm in those days. Then it grew colder, which eventually triggered the invasion of the so-called barbarians, who found their native soils unable to support crops any longer and migrated south. Seems to me that, after almost 2000 years, the climate is now reverting to where it was, man-made hothouse effect or no. Greenland was not called Greenland because it was an icy desert the way it is now, after all.

I, for one, am looking forward to palm trees in Germany :-)

[the_callum]

Hey, those 'Barbarians' were my ancestors. *prods*

XD

I love the idea of the Earth having hot flushes, btw.

Well, seems that all we young and entirely immature species actually contribute to the changing climate of this old planet is: accelerate it a bit. Apart from that, I personally don't even think that the storm is desperately trying to blow us off the surface (although it's a tempting idea).

Nah, I agree. It's always been that way, somehow. And yet, we're surely not making it any better...

[frankymole]

"Groenland" was apparently so-called on maps as a bit of Viking propoganda, to encourage settlers to move there.

[elena_c]

Really? I didn't know that. It was on the same level as "here be dragons", then, lol.

But still, there *were* settlements there, and agriculture, which would be impossible now.

[frankymole]

Yes, from the Mediaeval Warm Period until the Little Ice Age (though as well as climate, conflicts with the Inuit may have finished them off).