If global warming is real, then it’s a great investment, since the ice cap will shrink and provide easy access to more minerals. It might even get “green” again, like it was back in the Medieval warming period when it got named “Greenland”.
But will it be a blue state or a red state?
Further back (though I do not buy the extreme dating or the current scare)
Fossil DNA Proves Greenland Once Had Lush Forests ;
Ancient Greenland was green. New Danish research has shown that it was covered in conifer forest and had a relatively mild climate. The research is painting a picture which is overturning all previous assumptions about biological life and the climate in Greenland. The findings also show evidence of ice in Greenland during the Eemian interglacial period 125,000 years ago, which indicates that although we are now confronted with global warming, the whole ice sheet will probably not melt and bring about the tremendous sea-level rises which have been the subject of so much discussion.
The research results are the first direct proof that there was forest in southern Greenland. Furthermore Willerslev found genetic traces of insects such as butterflies, moths, flies and beetles. But when was that? According to most scientific theories to date, all of southern Greenland and most of the northern part were ice-free during the last interglacial period 125,000 years ago, when the climate was 5 degrees warmer than the interglacial period we currently live in.