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From Wikipedia
Greenland (Greenlandic: Kalaallit Nunaat, pronounced [kalaːɬit nunaːt]; Danish: Grønland, pronounced [ˈkʁɶnˌlænˀ]) is an autonomous country of the Kingdom of Denmark,[9][10] located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe (specifically Norway and Denmark, the colonial powers, as well as the nearby island of Iceland) for more than a millennium.[11] The majority of its residents are Inuit, whose ancestors began migrating from the Canadian mainland in the 13th century, gradually settling across the island.
Greenland is the world's largest island (Australia and Antarctica, both larger than Greenland, are generally considered to be continental landmasses rather than islands).[12] Three-quarters of Greenland is covered by the only permanent ice sheet outside Antarctica. With a population of about 56,480 (2013),[6] it is the least densely populated territory in the world.[13] About a third of the population live in Nuuk, the capital and largest city. The Arctic Umiaq Line ferry acts as a lifeline for western Greenland, connecting the various cities and settlements.
Greenland has been inhabited at intervals over at least the last 4,500 years by Arctic peoples whose forebears migrated there from what is now Canada.[14][15] Norsemen settled the uninhabited southern part of Greenland beginning in the 10th century, having previously settled Iceland to escape persecution from the King of Norway and his central government. These Norsemen would later set sail from Greenland and Iceland, with Leif Erikson becoming the first known European to reach North America nearly 500 years before Columbus reached the Caribbean islands. Inuit peoples arrived in the 13th century. Though under continuous influence of Norway and Norwegians, Greenland was not formally under the Norwegian crown until 1262. The Norse colonies disappeared in the late 15th century when Norway was hit by the Black Death and entered a severe decline. Soon after their demise, beginning in 1499, the Portuguese briefly explored and claimed the island, naming it Terra do Lavrador (later applied to Labrador in Canada).[16]
In the early 18th century, Danish explorers reached Greenland again. To strengthen trading and power, Denmark–Norway affirmed sovereignty over the island. Because of Norway's weak status, it lost sovereignty over Greenland in 1814 when the union was dissolved. Greenland became Danish in 1814, and was fully integrated in the Danish state in 1953 under the Constitution of Denmark.
In 1973, Greenland joined the European Economic Community with Denmark. However, in a referendum in 1982, a majority of the population voted for Greenland to withdraw from the EEC, which was effected in 1985. Greenland contains the world's largest and most northerly national park, Northeast Greenland National Park (Kalaallit Nunaanni nuna eqqissisimatitaq). Established in 1974, and expanded to its present size in 1988, it protects 972,001 square kilometres (375,292 sq mi) of the interior and northeastern coast of Greenland and is bigger than all but twenty-nine countries in the world. Greenland is divided into five municipalities – Sermersooq, Kujalleq, Qeqertalik, Qeqqata, and Avannaata.[17] Greenland does not have an independent seat at the United Nations.[18]
In 1979, Denmark granted home rule to Greenland, and in 2008, Greenlanders voted in favor of the Self-Government Act, which transferred more power from the Danish government to the local Greenlandic government. Under the new structure, in effect since 21 June 2009,[19] Greenland can gradually assume responsibility for policing, judicial system, company law, accounting, and auditing; mineral resource activities; aviation; law of legal capacity, family law and succession law; aliens and border controls; the working environment; and financial regulation and supervision, while the Danish government retains control of foreign affairs and defence. It also retains control of monetary policy, providing an initial annual subsidy of DKK 3.4 billion, which is planned to diminish gradually over time. Greenland expects to grow its economy based on increased income from the extraction of natural resources. The capital, Nuuk, held the 2016 Arctic Winter Games. At 70%, Greenland has one of the highest shares of renewable energy in the world, mostly coming from hydropower
Link: http://anitastravelstories.com/2013/06/03/how-iceland-and-greenland-ended-up-with-such-messed-up-names/
Excellent read there PBH.
earth, in this case Greenland, was warmer than it is now.
Link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130123133612.htm
This is pretty much accepted as Earth Science by every known scientist on the planet.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale
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You said none of them do. You must have based that on something. Did all of the climatologists sign a letter saying the Greenland has never been warmer than it is now?
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We agree on that.
But you probably shouldn't use such kooks as a proxy for the real climate change scientists.
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Sun being the most, volcanoes, sea temperatures, changes to earths tilt and magnetic fields and ocean currents. They change over centuries and millennium. Scientists can’t isolate man’s contribution. But climate change, is easy to blame droughts, fires, hurricanes, tidal surges are all immediate and easier to rally support but it’s not science but makes headlines.
You seem to want to have some other argument with me. I'm not sure why.
We need a Pope to start excommunicating again like when the earth was considered the center of our solar system which was accepted by 95% of science at the time. But Pope Francis is a Climate Zealot. Not accusing you of being a zealot.
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Link: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-rescue-700-year-old-melting-village-alaska-001212
nging organism yet we are just arrogant enough as a people to assume we've changed the entire planet in the last 80 years.
You could, like a buddy of mine, state that humans are natural too.
But, we only have one planet and a finite amount of resources, so for our own species survival we should be responsible and make every reasonable and effective attempt at sustainable.
India and China are the major polluters of this time, as the US and Europe were during our industrial revolutions. But each individual human owes it to themselves to do their part. If every person took individual responsibility, this would be a better place to live.
my entire life to address unsettled "science" is laughable.
Let's say the earth is warming, which is debatable based on how temps are measured, we should be spending more time and energy adapting to this "warmer" world than dreaming up unproven ideas that are going to stop and reverse global warming. The climate change demands are the typical type of governmental request: if we succeed, we need to keep spending and doing more, if we don't succeed, we just need to spend more and do more.
At the heart of the extreme climate alarmists is a belief that humans just suck and we should live in caves, if we are living at all. Once people understand it was these types of people that got the climate change ball rolling, they'll be more skeptical of what they read and hear.
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Why do you need the government to get involved?
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Regulate/require riparian buffers on every stream and River and ban shallow tiling.
If you want less plastic use, which I agree with, tax it.
I'd also tax the shit out of glyphosate and fund research into it's long term effects. I suspect the sudden steep increase in gluten intolerance coinciding with the sudden steep increase in glyphosate use is a coincidence, but it could be.
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I think that (lack of) exercise and nutrition play a role here.
I think the name derives from Erik the Red's efforts to attract colonists:
The early Norse settlers named the island as Greenland. In the Icelandic sagas, the Norwegian-born Icelander Erik the Red was said to be exiled from Iceland for manslaughter. Along with his extended family and his thralls (i.e. slaves or serfs), he set out in ships to explore an icy land known to lie to the northwest. After finding a habitable area and settling there, he named it Grœnland (translated as "Greenland"), supposedly in the hope that the pleasant name would attract settlers. The Saga of Erik the Red states: "In the summer, Erik left to settle in the country he had found, which he called Greenland, as he said people would be attracted there if it had a favorable name."[
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland
"The name Greenland comes from Scandinavian settlers. In the Norse sagas, it is said that Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder. He set out in ships to find land rumoured to be to the northwest. After settling there, he named the land Grfnland (Greenland), possibly to attract more people to settle there."
It was a marketing scheme.
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310 species of vascular plants were said to be found in Greenland in 1911, including 15 endemic species. Although individual plants can be profuse in favourable situations, relatively few plant species tend to be represented in a given place. Except for in Qinngua Valley, Greenland has no native forests,[2] although 9 stands of conifers had been cultivated by 2007.[1]
In northern Greenland, the ground is covered with a carpet of mosses and low-lying shrubs such as dwarf willows and crowberries. Flowering plants in the north include yellow poppy, Pedicularis, and Pyrola.[3][2] Plant life in southern Greenland is more abundant, and certain plants, such as the dwarf birch and willow, may grow several feet high.
The only natural forest in Greenland is found in the Qinngua Valley. The forest consists of mainly of downy birch (Betula pubescens) and grey-leaf willow (Salix glauca), growing up to 7–8 metres (23–26 ft) tall.[4]
Horticulture shows a certain degree of success. Plants such as broccoli, radishes, spinach, leeks, lettuce, turnips, chervil, potatoes and parsley are grown up to considerable latitudes, while the very south of the country also rears asters, Nemophila, mignonette, rhubarb, sorrel and carrots.[2] Over t
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Link: http://www.indiana.edu/~geol105/images/gaia_chapter_4/milankovitch.htm
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I don't know anyone who truly lives the lifestyle required to limit our carbon emissions, including myself. Sure I compost and try to limit my use of single-use plastic, but for now my SUV is untouchable.