Greenland

The arctic ice pack is a primary indicator of global climate change. Arctic ice melting is largely due to carbon dioxide emissions. In recent weeks, the arctic ice pack has shrunk to an extent that no computer model nor scientist had thought possible. The term, ‘arctic ice melt’ refers to the ice located at the arctic circle that is warming due to severe climate change. In certain high latitude regions such as the Arctic Ocean, the surface waters are actually colder than the deep waters and the…

“Come on!” yelled Captain Jurkic, “Are you guys coming to the meeting?” “You mean The Thing, right?” answers Valdemar. Valdemar was the person everybody knew. He has blonde hair, olive skin, green eyes, and he was only 13 years old. Captain Jurkic is 12 years, which is old enough to be a Viking, has blonde hair, moonlight skin, and blue eyes. “Turid? Are you coming to The Thing?” exclaims Gunnar, holding a sharp sword in his hand. Gunnar is different; he is just pure crazy. He has brown hair,…

The world will melt its way into an apocalyptic world, oceans will flood places, people will die of the heat, starvation will take place. How will the human race prevent this from happening? In order to stop global warming scientists must find ideas, and look at what is causing this? Global Warming occurs when a vast quantity of C02 along with other pollutants gets into the atmosphere and absorbs light as well as solar radiation, which has bounced off the surface of the Earth for centuries in…

settlers. Although the Vikings were victorious against the indigenous people’s attack they soon decided to abandoned their settlement and return home to Greenland. Although the Viking’s stay was not permanent it is still marked as the first European settlement in North America. The Saga of Erik the Red continues by describing the Vikings return to Greenland. The return may have occurred because of the evident disapproval of indigenous people of North America, or possibly the overall uncertainty…

regard due to his “exceptional talents” (Robinson 118). It was these talents that would lead him to be the first man to claim to reach the North Pole with Matthew Henson. Peary led many expeditions during his Arctic career, which included many to Greenland and to the North Pole. According to Jake Page and Charles Officer, Peary made eight Arctic trips, which was “more than anyone else” (Officer and Page 132). These “publicized trips” (Officer and Page 132) brought Peary the fame and status that…

Inuit, Native American nomads of the frozen north Inuit are a people that live in the frozen artic and sub artic lands of north America, like Canada and Alaska they even live in other parts of the world like Siberia and Greenland. They are one of the hundreds of tribes that live in North America today. Between the United States and Canada there are over a thousand tribes that call these lands home. Throughout history the Native American all across the continent of North America developed and…

Transition: “One of the biggest consequences of the rising ocean temperatures is the effect it has on the ice caps.” B. Melting ice sheets 1. Ice sheets in both Antarctica and Greenland are losing mass a. It is estimated that Antarctica is losing 134 gigatonnes of ice every year since 2002 b. While it is estimated that in Greenland, 287 gigatonnes of ice is melting every year 2. Melting ice sheets have a direct effect on things such as the sea level and habitable land for animals a. Two-thirds…

Primary sources are documents and artifacts that come directly from the past. The Vinland Sagas are two Icelandic texts and primary sources that include the “Saga of the Greenlanders” and the “Saga of Eirik the Red.” Both sagas tell similar yet different stories of Norse voyages to North America, a place that Leif Eirikson named Vinland (wine land). The Vinland Sagas tell how the Norse people traveled to North America and created settlements there until a battle with the natives broke out. The…

gravity meter down a mile-deep hole in Greenland ice sheet say their observations also disagree with theoretical calculations” (Pool, R. "Was Newton Wrong?" Science 241, no. 4867 (1988): 789-90. doi:10.1126/science.241.4867.789). Basically many scientist have thought to have found, through their own experiments, that there may be some holes in Newton theory. Not that its completely wrong just his calculations may not work entirely as he put it. This Greenland experiment is the first time that…

heat from the Earth’s warming and takes up the volume of water in the oceans. Librarycqpress.com reports, “Sea level is not occurring at the same rates globally due to regional circumstances, such as subsidence” (Swope). The ice sheet is melting in Greenland and Antarctica; nevertheless, the water stored land as a solid ended up in the sea; consequently, ice melts begun raising public…