To use, I mean. For us to use.
Now that it’s on order. Once we buy it, or take it, or whatever.
How long before we get to use it?
I appreciate the sentiment.
Republican policy, if I can infer such, is not merely to ignore global warming, but to encourage the consumption of fossil fuels.
And yet, even as they deny it, they seem to realize they’ve got to have a place to put people. You know, once Florida is under water, the Great Plains have reverted to sagebrush desert, and so on.
But, we’ve got this big empty island, just offshore. Kinda.
Buy the big empty island, set up resort destination with a few casinos, and problem solved.
It’s a no-brainer.
Plus, if we’re tired of NATO, there’s no better way to do away with it than to attack a NATO country.
It’s a no-brainer and a two-fer.
But I digress.
How long for the ice to melt?
At present, Greenland is 80% covered by a remnant of the North American ice sheet. It’s a relic from the most recent ice age. I vaguely recollect that the ice is two miles thick in places.
But on average, it’s under a mile-and-a-half thick.
Based on all sources available to it, Google’s AI thinks it’ll take at least 1000 years for the ice to melt.
If I specifically narrow it to the IPCC, Google tells me “a few thousand years”.
Admittedly, some real estate will open up before the ice melts fully.
But given the overall time line for global warming, and certainly the likely remaining lifespan of the USA, I don’t think the ice up there is going to melt in time to do us much good.
