DOnald Trump He has something for Greenland. First, he wanted to He buys Northern Antarctic Island. Then to him son She visited to take the photo. Now it is Reject To exclude the use of the American army to seize it.
For decades, the value of Greenland was already its value Strategic site Between the great powers and unique Mineral resources. no longer. Today, the value of Greenland is the ice that covers 80 percent of the island. Maintaining ice in Greenland, frozen, keeps at least a trillion dollars from the generation of wealth, according to A. Study 2020It will help prevent trillion dollars The estimated losses By the year 2100, and if we allow all this ice to be soluble, the global sea level will rise 24 feet Higher than it is today. Low agricultural fields, factories, homes, and large areas of cities, including New Orleans, Miami, Jakarta and Mumbai, will disappear under the waves unless we spend more Parliamentary building To remove the ocean.
What matters now is to cool the Earth’s climate to keep the ice in Greenland and with it our collective coastal future. However, the president continues to look at the island’s state from an ancient perspective Power lensOwning the lands of others to generate wealth and remove the perceived enemies.
Trump’s fascination with Greenland is not a new idea. For more than a thousand years, colonial aspirations formed the history of the island. Scandinavians, Danish, Nazis and Americans came to Greenland in search of land and natural resources and military control of the Arctic.
It is considered Red EricWho immigrated from Norway when he was a child, and was later denied by his home in Iceland for murder. In 985 AD, he sailed deep into the Strait of South Greenland. On a piece of flat coast, Eric created the Brattahlíð farm, the first farm of what will become about 500 Scandinavian farms on the island. During a few hundred years, Scandinavians disappeared. We now know that climate change has led to almost an increase in sea level 10 feet higher In southern Greenland, which dusted their settlements and contributed to their demise.
Nearly a thousand years, 10 minutes away from the boat via the Barthli maritime strait, the American military bulldozers built a memorial. Aircraft landing with a length of mile At the beginning of World War II. They stopped there to refuel on their one -way trip to the European theater, and the American bombers passed the Scandinavian ruins.
The president continues to look at the island’s state through the lens of the old authority: the possession of the lands of others to generate wealth and remove the perceived enemies.
The Americans were not alone. On the eastern coast of Jeraneland, closed, Nazi meteorologists Cracking weather reports are wirelessly sent to Germany, which is important information for precise predictions in the battlefield because the weather in Europe mostly comes from the West. This was the first hint that Greenland was of strategic value, whether in the war or as part of the Earth’s climate system.
As the Cold War intensified, the American occupation of Greenland expanded. The growing American airport in TireJust 2,800 miles from Moscow, which included atomic weapons and 10,000 men. Camp Camp, Army Nuclear powder Base, whispering inside the ice cover. It was the beginning of a major plan that would move the medium -range tactical nuclear missiles back and forth Ice sheet tunnels. This atomic missile game will cover an area equivalent to Alabama state. But within a few years, this dream dream faded Snow tunnels collapsed and Far -range ballistic missiles The deterrent value of Greenland has decreased.
By the late 1960s, American soldiers were returning to their homes because the Arctic occupation is no longer the same as it is Strategically. After deserting the bases, the army left a variety of dangerous materials in their wake: in the camp of the century, 10,000 tons of waste Including fixed and toxic organic chemicals such as di -vinyl chlorine, lead, asbestos, and millions of gallons of frozen wastewater; In Thuwal, a polluted port Plutonium When a nuclear weapon was disintegrated, it was carried by the shattered B-52 bombs impact.
In recent years, the Danish has been Arrangement That chaos, a rule in it Abandoned. But no one has purchased the global atmosphere purposefully. Since he began burning fossil fuels in approximately in approximately 1850, humans have added sufficient greenhouse gases to heating the ground at a rate of more than 2 degrees Fahrenheit; The Arctic is heated Several times faster.
Like an ice cube on a hot summer day, the ice cover in Greenland is so MeltingAnd that the water flowing to the ocean is steadily raising sea level in the world. The high level of the ocean now endangers our national security.
Consider this Norfolk marine stationThe largest military port in the world and home to five out of 12 US aircraft carriers, now drowning under the waves. Throughout the world, more than half a billion people live With the limits of 25 feet Sea level, according to a study conducted in 2019. If the ice in Greenland continues to melt, the high level of the sea will overwhelm their homes and farms, such as those experienced by the North residents. The following will be the largest Human migration In history.
Greenland’s ice would not have dissolved if many contracts of moral appeals to address climate change effectively involved people and politicians. But those pleadings are often formulated The ends of the worldThe flat fell. We need a different approach.
I suggest that the call for climate stability as a strategic and economic The inevitable inevitability – the idea that politicians of different ideological spectrum colors can support – is our best hope to keep the Greenland ice frozen, thus preventing seas from rise. The American military establishment, which was an integral part of Greenland’s occupation during the Cold War and which has been respected by most Americans, is an example of such an approach.
Military and Intelligence planners They are completely aware strategic The threat posed by climate change in the world as drought, floods and heat waves destabilize food supplies and diets. They know that climate change is Multiple threat And a catalyst for conflict. the more The frequency of rare and extreme climatic events, which may lead to stability now makes global political geography more mysterious than ever.
The American army experience turns out to take an act Reducing climate effects can be an economic and strategic gain. In the rules around the world, the engineers expanded the use of renewable energy during construction Local small networks With the battery store for reliable energy around the clock throughout the week. The move away from fossil fuels has become really a matter Providing millions of taxpayers dollars In energy costs while reduction Series of supply and operational weakness.
In some way, Donald Trump is right. We need Greenland, not the land, but ice. Maintaining this frozen ice means cooling our world whose temperature rises quickly, specifically the Arctic. Carbon removal from the global economy is a decisive first step. After that, we need to develop and test TechniquesMechanical and natural, it removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Only then will cool enough Keep the Greenland ice on the ground Outside the ocean.
It is the temperature of our planet, not the aspirations of politicians, that will determine whether the ice will remain on Greenland or that it will melt and flow into the global environment.
It is possible that the last time that the earth was warm as it was in 2024 More than 100,000 years Since – the time has risen sea level At least 20 feetReshaping the world’s coasts. Some of this water came from the dissolved ice in Greenland. A larger melting and sea level elevation occurred 400,000 years ago. It is the temperature of our planet, not the aspirations of politicians, that will determine whether the ice will remain on Greenland or that it will melt and flow into the global environment.
Remember Trump in Florida, Maralago. Four feet from sea level rise The lower grass is immersed. Six feet and the Atlantic Ocean may flow into the hallway. The ice layer melts in Greenland and only the top floor and the tower in the Maralago. our Collective procedures Over the coming decades, the future of ice will be determined on Earth, and thus the level of the world sea surface.
Mr. President Trump, the most strategic option is now not to buy or seize Greenland, but to work worldwide to save her ice page, because what is happening in Greenland has not remained in Greenland yet.
Paul Perman He is a geological scientist and professor of natural resources at the University of Vermont and has 40 years experience in studying ice flowers and ice sheets. His latest book “When the ice wentHe narrates the military, the clinical and the scientific date From Greenland.
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