Posted on 01/01/2025 2:10:39 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
To imagine the kind of future a hotter, dryer climate may bring, and the geopolitical challenges it will create, look no farther than two parts of the world that Donald Trump wants America to control: Greenland and the Panama Canal.
The president-elect in recent days has insisted that both places are critical to United States national security. He’s called to reclaim control the Panama Canal from Panama and acquire Greenland from Denmark, both sovereign territories with their own governments.
They have something else in common as well: Both are significantly affected by climate change in ways that present looming challenges to global shipping and trade.
Because of warming temperatures, an estimated 11,000 square miles of Greenland’s ice sheets and glaciers have melted over the past three decades, an area roughly equivalent to the size of Massachusetts. That has huge implications for the entire world. If the ice melts completely, Greenland could cause sea levels to rise as much as 23 feet, according to NASA.
Greenland’s retreating ice could open up areas to drill for oil and gas and places to mine critical minerals, a fact that has already attracted international interest and raised concerns about environmental harms. And, ship traffic in the Arctic has surged 37 percent over the past decade, according to a recent Arctic Council report, as sea ice has declined. More melting could open up even more trade routes.
Amanda Lynch, a professor at Brown University who has studied climate change in the Arctic for nearly 30 years, said the new trade routes created by ice melt could also heighten the risk of environmental disasters. Ships from some countries, she said, are not designed to withstand Arctic conditions.
“An oil spill or some other toxic accident on that route is inevitable and could already have happened and we...
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Panama Canal - strategic importance.
Greenland - stupid.
New York Times — getting sillier day by day
Nope. EUSSR and other powers want control of Greenland.
Frankly, EUSSR being in Greenland violates the debauched-by-the-US-left Monroe Doctrine.
Greenland - strategic importance for two reasons. North Atlantic and Arctic security plus untold mineral wealth.
NY Times just found an acceptable libtard justification for taking the Panama Canal and Greenland.
Its gonna happen!
Lots of oil under Greenland. This is about China. Trump is going to run China out of the Western hemisphere starting with Panama. Greenland is about rare earth minerals and a strategic place for missile defense.
These morons have climate fever.
Article written with a crayon, no doubt.
True Climate Religion believers.
They can’t handle the truth.
Regardless of how "vitally important" Greenland is to the U.S., the U.S. has no right to take it.
It seems half the time, conservatives are shaking their finger at mean imperialists for invading countries that don't belong to them.
The other half the time, conservatives are pushing to expand the empire because ... Merica!
If the ice melts completely, Greenland could cause sea levels to rise as much as 23 feet, according to NASA.
Aren’t we paying AOC and NASA loads of taxpayer money for them to actually do the math? Trust the science but not faux scientists.
Here’s a free algorithm to start, since they haven’t started:
(volume of the current sphere) + (volume of melted ice) ~ (level of actual climate doomage)
Uh-oh, RUN! /sarc
Elon, fly me to the moon, or Mars. Better yet, DOGE the whole project and let us go on unburdened, where no planet has gone before.
Dittos!
I don’t understand why we need to take Greenland from Denmark and it’s certainly not because of “climate change”.
We have never been enemies with Denmark.
I am so totally gonna have the Baskin-Robbins franchise in Thule.
More Bullshit from the New York Slimes
Though I doubt it will happen, why do you believe it is stupid for Trump to wnat Greenland under U.S. control?
We never should have given it back to Denmark after the end of WW2. And should another world war break out or should China make its move, we will have to take it again to protect it. Denmark will not be able to protect Greenland from China anymore than it was able to protect it from the Nazis. The US is the super power and Greenland should be ounder our jurisdiction. Better to do it now than have to fight China after they take it from Denmark.
We never should have given it back to Denmark after the end of WW2. And should another world war break out or should China make its move, we will have to take it again to protect it. Denmark will not be able to protect Greenland from China anymore than it was able to protect it from the Nazis. The US is the super power and Greenland should be ounder our jurisdiction. Better to do it now than have to fight China after they take it from Denmark.
Ugh what a load of BS. Never give up the con.
I don’t know about you, but I’m buying a beach front lot Greenland’s north coast!
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