Thoughts on Greenland

[degringolade]

A Good Macro Lens is a Wonderful Thing

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I am just taking time this morning just looking at the physical characteristics of Greenland.  This is not am attaboy or a condemnation, But just what is it about the place that folks have such a hard on currently.

Spend some time reading history.  Granted, a lot of it is rubbish that is more akin to propaganda that a description of events, but it it better than nothing.  Denmark claims that it is part of the "Kingdom" of Denmark, which makes me immediately suspicious.  I have no use for Kingships.  The claims go back to the viking times, and when you peel back all the romance, vikings were never anything but slavers.  So that blows a lot of the authority out of the water.  Then Denmark got handed the keys as part of a treaty that calved off Sweden and Norway.  To me it looks like they got it because the others didn't want it.

Folk here and abroad are getting hinkey about a rock in the far North Atlantic.  The total population is about the same as Pocatello, Idaho.  It is about the same size as it's relatively balmy cousin Alaska.  80% of the land is covered by an ice cap which yields an ice-free coastline approximately the same size as New Mexico.

The ice cap is around 0,85 miles thick on the average.  Best estimates are that even should global warming ramp up to max, the ice cap is going to be there for another thousand years (historical fact, 1,000 years ago Europe was still getting prepped for William the Bastard's conquest of England and were just starting to think about the first crusade).

Nope, The actual place isn't the story here.  This is political theater.