Arctic Thaw Affects Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean Island Greenland

Summary: Arctic Thaw affects Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean island Greenland, according to Arctic Thaw: Climate Change and the Global Race for Energy Resources.

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Sermeq Kujalleq (from Inuit sermeq kujalleq, "glacier southern") accepts the Danish name Jakobshavn Isbræ and the English names Ilulissat Glacier (from West Greenlandic ilulissat, "glacier") and Jakobshavn Glacier (from Danish Jakobs, "Jacob's"; Old Norse hǫfn, "harbor, haven, port"). The UNESCO World Heritage Site (from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in West Greenland adds the most icebergs to Arctic iceberg populations; "View of Jakobshaven, Greenland. (From an Original Sketch)," page 65, in The Countries of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Various Continents, Islands, Rivers, Seas, and Peoples of the Globe (London, 1894) by British author, explorer and scientist Robert Brown (March 23, 1842-Oct. 26, 1895): British Library (The British Library), No known copyright restrictions, via Flickr

Arctic Thaw affects Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean island Greenland, according to Arctic Thaw: Climate Change and the Global Race for Energy Resources by Stephanie Sammartino McPherson for Twenty-First Century Books in 2015.

The 53-page Junior Library Guild Selection book broaches the biggest Arctic, the world-biggest island in five-page Chapter Six’s Spotlight on Greenland and in six pages elsewhere. The book Arctic Thaw: Climate Change and the Global Race for Energy Resources considers Canada, Denmark(‘s Greenland), Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States. The afore-designated octet, described as the Arctic Eight countries whose borders dwell along the Arctic Ocean, defer post-1996 Arctic dealings to their Arctic Council international-body discussions.

Denmark-dependent, home-ruled Greenland emerges as an essential entity in that council even as its landed and watery expanses escape extreme exploitation despite their extensive natural resources.

The countries China, India, Italy, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, for mineral-mining and offshore gas- and oil-drilling interests, figure as Arctic Council permanent observers since May 2013.

Greenland gained greater resource-development control June 21, 2009, when Denmark Queen Margrethe II gave Greenland parliament chairman Josef Motzfeldt the official document that grants expanded self-rule. Greenland holds huge offshore-oil, huge copper, gold, iron, nickel, platinum, zinc offshore-mineral deposits, from whose respective drilling and mining incomes Denmark and Greenland each harvest half. The world-immensest island perhaps includes the world-immensest deposit of rare-earth minerals that impel electronic devices such as fluorescent light-bulbs; hybrid-car batteries; laptops and smartphones; wind turbines.

Arctic Thaw joins Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean Arctic island resources in the Greenland legislature October 2013 judging judicious, by a 15-14 margin, radioactive-element uranium-mining and exporting.

One “barren plain” (McPherson:45) perhaps keepsakes 10,500,000 (10.5 million) tons (9,500,000 [9.5 million] metric tons) of rare-earth minerals kindling 100 years of mining jobs, products, profits.

Rare-earth mining usually links with neighboring radioactive-element uranium and thereby with birth defect- and cancer-launching environmental protection even as it likewise links with clean-energy, wind-powered turbine-making. November 2012 and September 2013 matter as respectively manifesting perhaps the 150th foreign-mining company-motivated, offshore-exploring license and the fifth hydroelectric-powered plant, the latter first-ever maintained sub-permafrostedly. The McPherson pages note nothing about solar power even as they number gas and oil fossil-fuel, melted-ice, split-plutonium or uranium atom and wind-turned turbine energy sources.

Arctic Thaw observes Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean Arctic island Greenland observing global-warmed, melted-ice, rising-water occurrences that ice-obstructive topography once obviated and that occasion optimal mining opportunities.

Greenland possesses a practically 2-mile- (3-kilometer-) thick ice sheet that persists almost 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) north to southward, 600 miles (965 kilometers) east to westward.

That sheet, whose 600-foot (183-meter) aboveground, perhaps 1,800-foot (549-meter) below-water high Sermeq Kujalleq ("glacier southern") quarters most Arctic glacier-calved, glacier-quit icebergs, quests 80% of Greenland topography. Page 46 references melted ice-realized energy sources as rendering no atmosphere-harming emissions; as reducing carbon emissions by 23%; as representing 70% of all island energy requirements. Page 53 suggests nuclear power as “useful--even necessary” even as page 52 scolds hydroelectric power’s plant-construction, plant-operation area flooding; carbon-dioxide emissions; underwater turbine-sustained aquatic-animal slaughters.

Arctic Thaw perhaps treats Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean Arctic island Greenland to territorial-resource development that triggers terrible or terrific profits with or without traditional-culture, transitional-climate threats.

The Kvanefjeld (from Danish kvan, “garden angelica”; fjeld, “mountain”) site in the Ilimaussaq intrusive complex affords coastal southwest Greenland the world second-largest deposits of rare-earth elements, metals, oxides and the world-sixth-largest uranium deposits; "Map of South Greenland showing the Tugtupite deposit area": F.N. Berg, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

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Sermeq Kujalleq (from Inuit sermeq kujalleq, "glacier southern") accepts the Danish name Jakobshavn Isbræ and the English names Ilulissat Glacier (from West Greenlandic ilulissat, "glacier") and Jakobshavn Glacier (from Danish Jakobs, "Jacob's"; Old Norse hǫfn, "harbor, haven, port"). The UNESCO World Heritage Site (from United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in West Greenland adds the most icebergs to Arctic iceberg populations; "View of Jakobshaven, Greenland. (From an Original Sketch)," page 65, in The Countries of the World: Being a Popular Description of the Various Continents, Islands, Rivers, Seas, and Peoples of the Globe (London, 1894) by British author, explorer and scientist Robert Brown (March 23, 1842-Oct. 26, 1895): British Library (The British Library), No known copyright restrictions, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/11228560074/;
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The Kvanefjeld (from Danish kvan, “garden angelica”; fjeld, “mountain”) site in the Ilimaussaq intrusive complex affords coastal southwest Greenland the world second-largest deposits of rare-earth elements, metals, oxides and the world-sixth-largest uranium deposits; "Map of South Greenland showing the Tugtupite deposit area": F.N. Berg, CC BY 3.0 Unported, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_info_tugtupite_02.jpg

For further information:

“Greenland.” Universal City, CA: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment LLC, Feb. 9, 2021.

Marriner, Derdriu. 6 February 2025. "Arctic Thaw Affects Arctic Circle, Arctic Ocean Island Greenland." Earth and Space News. Thursday.
Available @ https://earth-and-space-news.blogspot.com/2025/02/arctic-thaw-affects-arctic-circle.html

McPherson, Stephanie Sammartino. 2015. Arctic Thaw: Climate Change and the Global Race for Energy Resources. Minneapolis MN: Twenty-First Century Books, division of Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.