Greenland benefits from global warming

Published May 13, 2011 4:00am ET



People in Greenland are benefiting from global warming, notes a story in today’s Washington Post:

“Rather than questioning global warming, many of this island’s 60,000 inhabitants seem to be racing to cash in.  The tiny capital of Nuuk is bracing for record numbers of visitors this year; the retreating sea ice means a longer tourist season and more cruise ships from the United States. Hunters are boasting of more and bigger caribou, and the annual cod migration is starting earlier and lasting longer. In the far south, farmers are trying their hand at an exotic form of agriculture: growing vegetables. ‘Before, the growing season was too short for vegetables,’ said Noah Melgaard, a local journalist. ‘Now it is getting longer each year.’”

Under the Obama Administration, the EPA is seeking to regulate greenhouse gases – which are emitted by everything from factories to cars to farm animals – on the grounds that they threaten public health in the United States by causing global warming.  (Such greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, the colorless, odorless gas that we breathe out, and that plants consume in order to survive and grow).  Obama also backed a cap-and-trade global warming bill that’s full of corporate welfare and would increase electricity bills.  (In 2008, candidate Obama admitted  that under his “cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket”).

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