There is also the ticking time bomb of the Camp Century remains:<p>> In 2016, a group of scientists evaluated the environmental impact and estimated that due to changing weather patterns over the next few decades, melt water could release the nuclear waste, 200,000 liters of diesel fuel, a nontrivial quantity of PCBs, and 24 million liters of untreated sewage into the environment as early as the year 2090. Transition in ice sheet surface mass balance at Camp Century from net accumulation to net ablation is plausible within the next 75 years under one climate model, and after another 44 to 88 years the buried wastes could be exposed between 2135 and 2179.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century#Residual_environmental_hazards" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Century#Residual_environm...</a>
A big tangent but I remember a podcast with Sir David King, UK chief scientific advisor<p>- So, Sir David, what's worries you most?<p>- The Greenland Ice Sheet. If it melts human civilisation is finished.<p>- oh. And err is it melting?<p>- Yes, and accelerating.<p>- Oh.
This specifically mentions indigenous people, but unfortunately I don't think many people actually care about them (besides surface level). But how does this affect the average person's food supply? Don't we get a lot of fish/seafood from the arctic? Tuna and crab for example? Seems like it would affect fisheries in the north east of northern America and as well as northern Europe. That seems like a big deal for a lot of people. Does anyone have any more information on this? I imagine a lot of people depend on these regions for food.
There are unimaginable mineral resources under the Greenland ice sheet, stuff that literate humans have never seen and which is therefore not describe in any history. There should be enormous boulders of pure copper, rich deposits of gold, silver, and lead, and of course mercury. Greenland without its ice sheet will be like a museum of pre-human geology.
<a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://thehackposts.com/news/greenlands-ice-sheet-is-releasing-huge-amounts-of-mercury-into-rivers-2/" rel="nofollow">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:...</a><p>Just so that you have the ability to fully ruin your day