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Greenland’s ice cap is losing 270 billion tons of ice per year (2002-2023) as winter snowfall cannot offset extreme summer heat. This fuels global sea level rise (0.25 inches per year)—and if it all melts, seas could rise 23 feet.

wired.comBeneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical BattlegroundModern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold on the market?

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But underneath all that melting ice is something the whole world wants: the rare earth elements that make modern society—and the clean energy revolution—possible. That could soon turn Greenland, which has a population size similar to that of Casper, Wyoming, into a mining mecca.

wired.comBeneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical BattlegroundModern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold on the market?
ningelschuh.bsky.social
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Melting needs way time. Not 50 years. But gonna happen. Climate crisis already happens : heating, extreme weather events, dying/collapsing of the bio-geo-chemicalsphere unfolds befor our very eyes NOW, not 2100. This is not a solution, its a magic pipe dream and distracts from real solutions NOW.