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Got any more reading for this? Just back from Iceland so I am interested in this stuff right now. This is the only one I found, which doesn't seem to indicate
by cromulent 9y ago
Got any more reading for this? Just back from Iceland so I am interested in this stuff right now.
This is the only one I found, which doesn't seem to indicate a significant change.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851789/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851789/
- avar 9y agoThe change wasn't significant in terms of degrees Celsius, but even a degree in mean temperatures can have a large effect. It can mean the frozen ground starts thawing weeks or a month earlier, which makes for a longer growing season, which results in more biomass which has compound effects on the rest.
- vram22 9y agoSearch for "Medieval Warm Period" in this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland Happened to be reading about Iceland (and its cuisine :) recently.
- cromulent 9y agoThanks. My understanding was that the MWP is thought to be localized to Europe, not Greenland and Iceland.
- devb 9y agoI was just reading about Swedish prehistory and there was mention of a drastic climate cooling period.
- ZenoArrow 9y agoIceland and Greenland are both in Europe. Perhaps you meant mainland Europe?
- cromulent 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_Greenland_from_the_European_Communities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withdrawal_of_Greenland_from_t...
- ZenoArrow 9y agoMembership of the European Union is not what qualifies a country as European. If it was then Switzerland wouldn't be European, despite being near the centre of mainland Europe. Do you understand why the EU != Europe?