"Greenland’s enormous ice sheet is losing an average of 30m tonnes of ice an hour due to the climate crisis, raising sea levels and potentially collapsing vital ocean currents"
Trump sees this as an opportunity, all the while decrying anthropogenic warming as a "hoax".
As Arctic ice melts, mineral-rich land is exposed in Greenland. Alongside, a new potential Arctic shipping lane opens up. He wants control of both.
Each will only further exacerbate warming.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/13/trump-greenland-panama-canal-climate-crisis
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