Matt Barrow wrote:
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Matt Barrow wrote:
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I see by the map that Greenland has a few small towns and an USAF base,
all
right on the coast. Population is 56K, population of Iceland is 297K five
times more.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/...k/geos/gl.html
What am I missing?
I do not know, I was not talking about populations either.
I was answering a poster who claimed that Iceland had been depopulated
because of climate sometime after the settlement period, something that
never happened.
That's who I was responding to.
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Newps wrote:
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That the world is warming is not in question, the numbers are obvious.
What is causing it to warm is still in debate (especially by the Bush
White House), but a great number of scientists feel that man and the
greenhouse gasses he produces is likely the root cause.
Which shows the arrogance of man. I just finsihed reading a book about
the Viking explorers. They settled Iceland and Greenland around the
years 750-1050 AD. The "scientists" say that they were able to stay
there at all is because about the time they got there corresponded to a
global warming cycle that made the glaciers recede, the winters easier
and the summers warmer and longer. About the time they left corresponds
to the "Little Ice Age".
Well, the descendants of the original settlers are still living in
Iceland, farming it and living a pretty good life. They haven´t left
at all.
Iceland is not Greenland. Iceland is warmed by ocean currents and has
been
inhabited for centuries, unlike Greenland which is pretty much
un-inhabitable ANYMORE except on very limited scale
(non-self-supporting).
Svara"
He referred to both Iceland and Greenland and then you felt compelled
to inform me that Iceland is not Greenland, something that I knew
already, as I live right here in Iceland.
If you'd check my post, I was responding to the person who answered you, not
to you.
No, I do not know what you are missing.
I'm referring to your post that there are large green areas, but in looking
at the map, every inhabited place I see is right on the coast, nothing
inland.
I never claimed that there were large inland areas, I just said there
were large green areas but I also said that the green areas were not a
big part of the total area of Greenland because of how big the country
is.
If you look at the south westen part of the country, around Quaqartoq
and also in the Disko area there are substantial farming land.
Are you a teacher by some chance?
No, I am not.