Tag: Greenland

Trump accuses Denmark’s leader of ‘nasty’ response to Greenland overture

The Hill logoPresident Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to postpone a state visit to Denmark, accusing the country’s prime minister of making a “nasty and inappropriate statement” in rejecting his desire to discuss possibly purchasing Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory.
“I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something. They could have told me no,” Trump told reporters at the White House before departing for a speech at the AMVETS convention in Kentucky.

“All they had to say was we’d rather not do that,” he added. “Don’t say, what an absurd idea that is.”

“She’s not talking to me, she’s talking to the United States of America. You don’t talk to the United States that way.”

View the complete August 21 article by Morgan Chalfant on The Hill website here.

Trump confirms he’s interested in buying Greenland

Washington Post logoPresident Trump confirmed Sunday that he has asked his administration to explore the possibility of buying Greenland, opining that “essentially, it’s a large real estate deal.”

“A lot of things can be done,” Trump told reporters in Morristown, N.J., after wrapping up a 10-day vacation at his private golf club. He noted that owning Greenland “would be nice” for the United States from a strategic perspective, but he cautioned: “It’s not number one on the burner, I can tell you that.”

Trump’s desire to buy Greenland, which is part of the kingdom of Denmark, was first reported last week by the Wall Street Journal. Two people with direct knowledge of the directive told The Washington Post that the president has mentioned the idea for weeks, and that aides are waiting for more direction before they decide how seriously they should look into it.

View the complete August 18 article by Felicia Sonmez and Tory Newmyer on The Washington Post website here.

‘This is final proof that he has gone mad’: Denmark mocks Trump’s reported desire to buy Greenland

AlterNet logoAmid reports that President Donald Trump has directed aides to examine whether the United States can purchase Greenland—an autonomous territory of Denmark—Danish lawmakers on Friday condemned the idea as both absurd and “grotesque.”

“If he is truly contemplating this, then this is final proof that he has gone mad,” Soren Espersen, foreign affairs spokesman for the Danish People’s Party, toldlocal broadcaster DR. “The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous.”

The Wall Street Journal first reported on Trump’s desire to purchase Greenland Thursday night.

View the complete August 16 article by Jake Johnson from Common Dreams on the AlterNet website here.

The Greenland ice sheet poured 197 billion tons of water into the North Atlantic in July alone

Washington Post logoOngoing extreme melt event continues, with more than half the ice sheet experiencing melting on July 31.

When one thinks of Greenland, images of an icebound, harsh and forbidding landscape probably come to mind, not a landscape of ice pocked with melt ponds and streams transformed into raging rivers. And almost certainly not one that features wildfires.

Yet the latter description is exactly what Greenland looks like today, according to imagery shared on social media, scientists on the ground and data from satellites.

An extraordinary melt event that began earlier this week continues on Thursday on the Greenland ice sheet, and there are signs that about 60 percent of the expansive ice cover has seen detectable surface melting, including at higher elevations that only rarely see temperatures climb above freezing.

View the complete August 1 article by Andrew Freedman and Jason Samenow on The Washington Post website here.