Fish Wrap: Trump Wants Greenland And Panama Canal Due To Global Boiling

Yeah, but, what about Canada? Anyhow, the NY Times thinks they know what’s going on

Trump Wants Greenland and the Panama Canal. It’s About Climate.

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.

“Could”. If they were doing the math they’d know the actual answer. Anyhow, nothing unusual is happening in those places being a typical Holocene warm period. But, you know, a doomsday cult has to see their cult in everything

Trump calls climate change a hoax. The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment. But his former national security adviser, Robert C. O’Brien suggested on Sunday that climate change was one factor in Trump’s interest in acquiring Greenland.

“Greenland is a highway from the Arctic all the way to North America, to the United States,” he told Fox News. “It’s strategically very important to the Arctic, which is going to be the critical battleground of the future because as the climate gets warmer, the Arctic is going to be a pathway that maybe cuts down on the usage of the Panama Canal.”

Nothing in there stated that Mankind is at fault. Most skeptics readily admit that the Earth has gotten warmer since 1850, as the Little Ace Age ended. But, cults have to cult.

I wonder if they have considered that this whole thing may be misdirection by Trump, who is looking for different outcomes?

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