OH Dear.. Greenland is melting from beneath!

[blastoff]

It isn't easy being green whether a frog or an extreme lefty fruitcake low info dimocrat.

 

[Old Rocks]

The vikings called it Greenland because, when they visited it, it was!

Actually, it is greener now than when the Vikings settled there. It was never better than marginal for living as they did, even in the best of times. And they failed to learn from the people that lived on the ice, so they died out. All covered in Jared Diamond's, "Collapse".

NOT QUITE TRUE

Icy Greenland was Once Pretty Green Study Finds Environment Nature World News

Yes, once very green, but a bit before the time of the Vikings.

Icy Greenland was Once Pretty Green Study Finds Environment Nature World News

"More than 2.5 million years ago Greenland looked like the green Alaskan tundra, before it was covered by the second largest body of ice on Earth," the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said in a statement Thursday.

Read more: Icy Greenland was Once Pretty Green Study Finds Environment Nature World News

 

[Old Rocks]

The vikings called it Greenland because, when they visited it, it was!

Not really.

How Greenland got its Name - Ancient History Blog

One Viking in particular, Erik the Red was very good at raiding and pillaging. Although history is somewhat sketchy, it is believed that he discovered Greenland after being sent away from Iceland in exile. This was rumored to have been his punishment for committing murder. He was able to settle in Greenland and survive there for several years. Finally, his exile was ended and he found that he wanted to settle the island more fully. For that, he needed to convince others to come with him. Erik the Red is believed to have lived from circa 950 to 1003CE.

Of course, when you tell someone that they will be travelling with you to a place that is barren, cold and inhospitable you may have trouble convincing even a Viking to come with you. So instead, Erik (according to popular legend) called the island Greenland and instead painted the island as being a wonderful place to settle.

 

[Old Rocks]

It isn't easy being green whether a frog or an extreme lefty fruitcake low info dimocrat.

But it is very easy being a rightwingnut fruitloop. Just state any idiocy that comes to mind. You are proof of that.