Greenland is a large area situated east of Canada, between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. About 80% of the island is covered by the Greenland ice sheet. During the 980s, Scandinavian and Icelandic exporers established two or three settlements on the south-west coast of Greenland. So what were the conditions in Greeland like 1,000 years ago?:
- The Greenland ice sheet already covered large sections of Greenland when Europeans established communities there 1,000 years ago.
- Warming was not global during the Medieval Climatic Anomaly; average global temperatures were lower than today.
- Natural factors behind regional warming in medieval Greenland are probably not responsible for today's global warming.
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