Re:Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland
by jfkienennd on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:04PM
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Because people from Iceland wanted to entice people to join them on a voyage there, and thought calling it Greenland would help them with that.
Re:Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland
by NeedMoreTea on Friday July 26, 2019 @06:31PM
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The indigenous Inuit call it Kalaallit Nunaat ("land of the Kalaallit").
The Saga of Erik the Red from the 13th century tells us Grœnland was chosen as misleading advertising to get people to relocate there.
And this:
"Scientists already know that the Greenland ice sheet is melting. But the hidden heat source originating from deep inside the Earth partially responsible for that melting has been a mystery. Now, researchers have pinned down evidence of that heat, revealing yet another force pushing glaciers into the ocean."
https://www.newsweek.com/puzzling-heat-deep-inside-earth-mel...