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Originally Posted by Sangetsu
Did you ever wonder why "Greenland" was given that name? Because when the first European settlers arrived, it was, in fact, green. The climate was far warmer between the 8th and 13th centuries than it is today. But then the world became much colder in the 14th and 15th centuries, and most of the farms and settlements became buried under ice. The world has gotten warmer again, but climate change scientists tend to leave the warm weather of this earlier period out of their charts, and start their charts in the middle of the colder period.
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I wondered until I learned that Erik the Red named it Greenland in hopes to attract more settlers about 1000 years ago.