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Vinland: a question of timing

Two centuries ago, our knowledge of the past barely reached back past classical Greece and Rome: say, 3,000 years. Now scientists are working hard to puzzle out past climate states ranging from hundreds to billions of years ago because understanding the patterns of the past may help us through whatever happens next. Every scrap of information may be valuable, writes Gwynne Dyer.