"Regardless of that non scheduled theology.

Grain was grown, IN Greenland, for several hundred years.

Which IS NOT POSSIBLE presently.

And hasn't been for many hundred years since.

Meaning,

despite any Go West Young Man propaghanda,

Grain was grown:

or they could not have sustained themselves therein for those several hundred years."

Okay, you're correct when you say that grain was grown. It's the part about "or they could not have sustained themselves" that I have trouble with. In fact, it is the clearing of land for farm purposes, and the subsequent erosion, that appears to have doomed the long-term survival of those colonies, since they were dependent on European models of agriculture and survival. What if the people had chosen to sustain themselves with fish & more ocean-derived nutrients? Their descendents might still be living there.

The five hundred years during which the Norse settled that area coincide with the "medieval warming period," so yes, you're right, grain was grown. But at what cost? The cost of sustainability . . . ?

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"Further, that grain was grown is a fact. It is not a model, a theory, a postulation or wishful thinking."

So . . . to your mind, what lesson could humanity best take from this fact? Is it enough for you to say "perhaps global warming isn't all it's hyped to be," or will you follow me toward the statement "we ought to put a LOT of thought into the ways in which we are changing our environment"?

Grain was grown. It's true. Now let's see if we can find a person whose ancestry derives from those grain-growing Greenlanders . . . and perhaps we can give them a good "high-five."

By the way, what is the sound of one hand high-fiving? ____

Herring405

May your skies always be just gray enough to keep your mountains green, and may fish always swim in your seas.