by Eric Utter, American Thinker:
According to a study recently published in the journal Science, and latched onto by USA Today, more than 400,000 years ago, Greenland was actually green. Yes, scientists say, the massive island was an ice-free landscape and was perhaps even covered with trees.
This is important to know, avers study co–lead author Paul Bierman of the University of Vermont, because it tells us that “Greenland’s ice sheet is fragile.” Bierman stated: “All by itself, during a warm period very similar to today, the ice sheet melted away 400,000 years ago. That was without fossil fuel emissions into the atmosphere.”