We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my fingers as quotation marks, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? Not very long.
This is less a scientific argument and more observational humor, like "Why do we park on a driveway, but drive on a parkway? Crazy! Am I right? Am I right?"
Iceland is called Iceland it's in the North Atlantic, where there's a lot of ice. There's a real shock, huh? But when Mike says "Greenland, which is covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason," he's got the reason wrong. It's not because it was such a green place. According to the Smithsonian, the name "Greenland" was a sales pitch.
Located west of Iceland, Greenland is a vast ice-capped continent 1700 miles long and 700 miles wide, fringed by a thin strip of mountainous terrain. Most of this land is frigid arctic tundra, but around A.D.985, Erik the Red discovered two areas of southwest Greenland which were suitable for farming, with grasslands and small stands of alder and birch. He named this land Greenland "so that people would be encouraged to go there," and indeed many followed him to this new land...
Not even a good try Mike.
(h/t Chip Giller and Sam Stein)
