A warm Greenland
An interesting report from AFP as reported by
Yahoo News:
bq. Remnants of plants that could be several million years old have been discovered in samples of mud recovered from the bottom of Greenland's three-kilometre-deep (two-mile-deep) ice cap, the head of a group of international scientists said.
bq. "There is a big possibility that this material is several million years old -- from a time when trees covered Greenland," Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, who heads a team of international scientists involved in the North Greenland Ice-core Project, said in a statement.
And more:
bq. "Reaching bedrock, frozen reddish mud was recovered with several centimetre-sized fragments of organic material looking like pine needles or pieces of bark," Dahl-Jensen said.
This is very cool. We already have archaeological record that Greenlanders were growing Grapes for wine back in the 900's - this directly corresponds with the 400 year cycle of warming and cooling that we have been experiencing.
At present, we are leaving the cooling period and entering a 400-year cycle of warming.
Posted by DaveH at August 8, 2004 2:12 PM