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Comments about Greenland on another blog
September 9, 2007 by Fred Bortz, 2 years 8 weeks ago
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The subject of a more hospitable Greenland came up in the discussion of another blog I read regularly. In this case, a well-informed commenter debunks a similar claim by columnist George Will about six months ago. The commenter notes that even if the climate of Greenland might be better suited to agriculture in a warming world, the soil will not be. Beneath the ice, it is geologically like Canada's Laurentian Shield, with any arable soil scraped and carried away by glaciers.
In other words, Don's rosy scenario needs a little dose of geological realism.
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