Even though actual scientific evidence casts serious doubts on the claims of global warming alarmists, let?s accept their claims about warming for a moment ? just to address an issue that?s ignored far too often: Wouldn?t warming produce some benefits?
Business Week discusses (in the third item here) this week some of the advantages linked to a greener Greenland:
Since Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat to its mostly Inuit population) has an abundance of swift rivers, the potential for cheap hydroelectric power is huge. Alcoa is now looking into locating an aluminum smelter on the island. Computer storage companies may follow. “They can keep their server farms cool with cheap hydropower, and we have more broadband than we can use,” says self-government director Mininnguac Kleist. Then there are the oil, gold, palladium, platinum, and zinc deposits. An unusual twist in all this: the impact of global warming. Melting ice is causing rivers to run even faster. And one lead and zinc mine is reopening as retreating ice makes it easier to reach.
