Greenland Changes
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Greenland Changes
Greenland Changes explores the dramatic environmental transformations reshaping Greenland and their global consequences. The book highlights how Greenland's accelerated ice sheet loss and evolving ecosystems serve as indicators of broader climate change patterns. Did you know that Greenland's melting ice contributes significantly to sea-level rise, impacting coastal communities worldwide? Or that changes in Greenland can disrupt ocean currents and atmospheric patterns? The book uses a fact-based approach to analyze the complex interplay of natural processes and human influences driving these changes. It begins by establishing foundational concepts of Greenland's climate, geology, and ecology. Later chapters detail the drivers of change, such as rising temperatures and altered precipitation, and then scrutinizes biological responses, including shifts in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Finally, the book examines the global implications of Greenland's transformations, providing potential future scenarios and adaptation/mitigation strategies. Through the integration of satellite data, ice core records, and climate modeling, Greenland Changes offers a comprehensive look at this critical region and its role in our planet's future.
The Fate of Greenland
Viewed from above, Greenland offers an endless vista of whiteness interrupted only by scattered ponds of azure-colored melt water. Ninety percent of Greenland is covered by ice; its ice sheet, the largest outside Antarctica, stretches almost 1,000 miles from north to south and 600 miles from east to west. But this stark view of ice and snow is changing--and changing rapidly. Greenland's ice sheet is melting; the dazzling, photogenic display of icebergs breaking off Greenland's rapidly melting glaciers has become a tourist attraction. The Fate of Greenland documents Greenland's warming with dramatic color photographs and investigates Greenland's climate history for clues about what happens when climate change is abrupt rather than gradual. Geological evidence suggests that Greenland has already been affected by two dramatic changes in climate: the Medieval Warm Period, when warm temperatures in Northern Europe enabled Norse exploration and settlements in Greenland; and the Little Ice Age that followed and apparently wiped out the settlements. Greenland's climate past and present could presage our climate future. Abrupt climate change would be cataclysmic: the melting of Greenland's ice shelf would cause sea levels to rise twenty-four feet worldwide; lower Manhattan would be underwater and Florida's coastline would recede to Orlando. The planet appears to be in a period of acute climate instability, exacerbated by carbon dioxide we pour into the atmosphere. As this book makes clear, it is in all of our interests to pay attention to Greenland.--Publisher description.
Rethinking Greenland and the Arctic in the Era of Climate Change
This ground-breaking book investigates how Arctic indigenous communities deal with the challenges of climate change and how they strive to develop self-determination. Adopting an anthropological focus on Greenland’s vision to boost extractive industries and transform society, the book examines how indigenous communities engage with climate change and development discourses. It applies a critical and comparative approach, integrating both local perspectives and adaptation research from Canada and Greenland to make the case for recasting the way the Arctic and Inuit are approached conceptually and politically. The emphasis on indigenous peoples as future-makers and right-holders paves the way for a new understanding of the concept of indigenous knowledge and a more sensitive appreciation of predicaments and dynamics in the Arctic. This book will be of interest to post-graduate students and researchers in environmental studies, development studies and area studies.