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Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and minerals Trump covets dangerous to extract

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Donald Trump has insisted that the U.S. will control Greenland , and if his overtures are rejected, perhaps seize the island by force.

Geoscientist Peter Bergen : Human-induced global warming, driven by fossil fuel combustion, speeds the melting of Greenland ’s ice.

Bergen says Greenland 's harsh climate and vast wilderness stymied past colonial endeavors.

He says natural hazards make resource extraction and military endeavors uncertain, expensive and potentially deadly.

Paul Bierman : U.S. military and colonial efforts failed in Greenland because they showed little consideration of the island’s harsh climate and dynamic ice sheet.

He says the greatest strategic and economic value of Greenland to the world is not its location or its natural resources, but its ice.

As it melts, the ice sheet will raise global sea level, up to about 23 feet when all the ice is gone.

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