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Greenland and the Little Ice Age
September 9, 2007
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In the 15th century any impact of global warming would have been minimal to the pre-interglacial period people. If the sea rose a few metres they would move their huts further inland or would migrate a few hundred kilometres and establish a new settlement, as the Norsemen did.
Now that we have 6 billion souls on the earth, reinforced concrete as a major building medium and immigration controls, these solutions are unavailable.
Sooner or later we will realise that this is not a climate problem, but a population problem. Nature will solve the population problem for us unless we can do a better job. The only problem is that Nature may take a catastrophic approach to the problem whereas we could be incremental and more measured.