Re: Some really neat northern lights photos

[Graywolf]

The volcanic eruption in Sri Lanka caused global cooling that caused Greenland 
to become uninhabitable about 1100 or so. At least that is the current theory 
(or the latest one I have seen, anyway)

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Jon Glass wrote:
On Dec 3, 2004, at 12:41 PM, Herb Chong wrote:
1) the weather was a lot warmer back then, almost like it is today, so
Greenland and Vinland really were a lot greener, on the coasts anyway. 
then
came the Little Ice Age.

You know, I remember learning as a young lad, that Greenland, when it 
was named, was first sighted at the one time of year when it is actually 
green (those few, rare days in the summer?) and that it was such a sight 
to the poor-sea-faring eyes of the discoverers, and looked so pleasant, 
that they named it green land, because that was how it looked. However, 
only later did they discover the truth. Wasn't the settlement there 
eventually abandoned because it was so uninhabitable?