PAC MAN Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/politics/trump-buy-greenland-wall-street-journal/index.html Trump wants the US to buy Greenland. Not the first time an US POTUS has wanted to do so but it has been a long time since that happened. Thoughts? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scscsc89 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 I’d rather we save it from the effects of climate change Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 I'd be open to preliminary discussions if Trump could prove he could find it on a map. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quack 12 Posted August 16, 2019 Share Posted August 16, 2019 Why don't we just annex the Sudetenland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaG Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 22 hours ago, Jalapeno said: https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/15/politics/trump-buy-greenland-wall-street-journal/index.html Trump wants the US to buy Greenland. Not the first time an US POTUS has wanted to do so but it has been a long time since that happened. Thoughts? Dumb idea. Greenland is only valuable from a military perspective and we've had an agreement with Denmark for decades about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaG Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 21 hours ago, Scscsc89 said: I’d rather we save it from the effects of climate change Wow, northern hemisphere ice melts in the spring on a hot day. I had no idea! Weather! I mean Climate! I mean... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scscsc89 Posted August 17, 2019 Share Posted August 17, 2019 7 minutes ago, PapaG said: Wow, northern hemisphere ice melts in the spring. I had no idea! Quote Warm air from Europe’s heat wave reached Greenland on July 29 and 30, setting temperature records at Summit Station and melting about 90 percent of the ice sheet surface from July 30 to August 3. Melt runoff was estimated at 55 billion tons during the interval, or about 40 billion tons more than the 1981 to 2010 average for the same time period. Overall, melting this July was much higher than average, leading to more extensive bare ice and flooded snow areas. http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/2019/08/europes-warm-air-spikes-greenland-melting-to-record-levels/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 On 8/16/2019 at 5:17 PM, Scscsc89 said: http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/2019/08/europes-warm-air-spikes-greenland-melting-to-record-levels/ @PapaG will never EVER respond to this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaG Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 On 8/16/2019 at 5:17 PM, Scscsc89 said: http://nsidc.org/greenland-today/2019/08/europes-warm-air-spikes-greenland-melting-to-record-levels/ Yes, it was a hot summer there. Meanwhile, it’s a cool summer in Portland. Weather is weird. Crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scscsc89 Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 7 minutes ago, PapaG said: Yes, it was a hot summer there. Meanwhile, it’s a cool summer in Portland. Weather is weird. Crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruin 70 Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 On 8/16/2019 at 7:11 PM, PapaG said: Wow, northern hemisphere ice melts in the spring on a hot day. I had no idea! Weather! I mean Climate! I mean... Suc suc is a complete leftist moron. This adds another one to his dumbazz tweets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruin 70 Posted August 19, 2019 Share Posted August 19, 2019 2 hours ago, Scscsc89 said: Prophetic! Unreal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaG Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 3 hours ago, Scscsc89 said: Thanks for again proving my point. You're not very good at this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 19 hours ago, PapaG said: Yes, it was a hot summer there. Meanwhile, it’s a cool summer in Portland. Weather is weird. Crazy! CO2 levels are higher than they have been in ONE MILLION years. That's not "weather", that's a climate crisis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC MAN Posted August 20, 2019 Author Share Posted August 20, 2019 On 8/16/2019 at 6:10 PM, PapaG said: Dumb idea. Greenland is only valuable from a military perspective and we've had an agreement with Denmark for decades about it. As long as Putin keeps his hands off Greenland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quack 12 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 2 hours ago, Jalapeno said: As long as Putin keeps his hands off Greenland. I don't think Putin cares about Greenland. Right now, Russia is building the largest nuclear icebreaker ever, the Ural, capable of cutting through nearly 10 feet of ice. It is the first of three icebreakers that they intend to use to keep the Northeast Passage open year round, thus reducing shipping time between Asia and Europe by about 1/3. They're pretty much pinning their economic future on the fact that ice is melting faster on their side of Arctic Circle than it is on ours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC MAN Posted August 20, 2019 Author Share Posted August 20, 2019 30 minutes ago, Quack 12 said: I don't think Putin cares about Greenland. Right now, Russia is building the largest nuclear icebreaker ever, the Ural, capable of cutting through nearly 10 feet of ice. It is the first of three icebreakers that they intend to use to keep the Northeast Passage open year round, thus reducing shipping time between Asia and Europe by about 1/3. They're pretty much pinning their economic future on the fact that ice is melting faster on their side of Arctic Circle than it is on ours. There's military value in that as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quack 12 Posted August 20, 2019 Share Posted August 20, 2019 41 minutes ago, Jalapeno said: There's military value in that as well. Certainly. They also intend to exploit gas fields in the Arctic tundra. They understand that climate change is real, and they aren't concerned about environmental impacts; they just want to gain every possible advantage from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scscsc89 Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 In just the five days from July 31 to Aug. 3, more than 58 billion tons (53 billion metric tons) melted from the surface. That’s over 40 billion tons more than the average for this time of year. And that 58 billion tons doesn’t even count the huge calving events or the warm water eating away at the glaciers from below, which may be a huge factor. Summit Station, a research camp nearly 2 miles high (3,200 meters) and far north, warmed to above freezing twice this year for a record total of 16.5 hours. Before this year, that station was above zero for only 6.5 hours in 2012, once in 1889 and also in the Middle Ages. but “weather is weird” cause Portland had a cool summer, nyuck nyuck nyuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaG Posted August 21, 2019 Share Posted August 21, 2019 Yes, weather happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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