Astonishing reasoning on Greenland from U.S. scientists
The good news (for some of the approximately 57,600 Greenlanders, at least): Greenland now has much more control over its destiny, following the decision from Denmark to allow self-rule for Greenlanders (see the article at the Sydney Morning Herald).
The not-so-good news: the following excerpt from this, and other, articles on this event is a real jaw-dropper:
"US scientists believe Greenland's northern tip is especially rich in
oil and gas and they say global warming could help unlock the untapped
wealth under the ice-cap and provide a solid foundation for an
independent economy."
Let's just hope that these are the same ubiquitous and apocryphal "U.S. scientists" who seem to crop up occasionally in news articles to justify not-to-be-disputed points of view. Let's also hope they have sufficient integrity to be greenhouse sceptics.
It's hard to imagine a more cynical and blithely pragmatic approach to the issue of global warming, whether or not one has doubts about the anthropogenic hypothesis (which would be too large a can of worms ever to be opened on this blog).
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