Energy consumption and the environment


Citizens of Greenland Enjoy Global Warming

In many regions of the world the globalfuture seal hunters and fishers shall
warming is considered the sign of thestart planting vegetables and
approaching nature cataclysm. Citizensstrawberries. Oleson himself has
of Greenland, an autonomous territory ofrecently switched to agriculture and
Denmark, on the contrary, believe thatbuilt in one of the island regions a
this process has its definitenetwork of hotbeds warmed by the solar
advantages.batteries all the year round.
According to representatives of theAs a result he managed to collect a
local authorities, as a result of icequite good harvest of tomatoes and even
melting and stable increase inbananas with high taste qualities.
temperature which in summer time alreadyThe scientists have stated that the
makes up 20 grades centigrade theprocess of melting of the ice covering
vegetation period becomes longer.Greenland takes places quicker that they
So far, population of the biggest islandhave predicted. If before 2004 the ice
in the world in most cases does withsurface in the south-east part of the
planting early sorts of potatoes andisland had been decreasing in
cold-resistance turnip.approximately 50-100 cubic kilometers
However, according to the experts, dueannually, at present, this indicator has
to climate changes the range of thegrown up to 300 kilometers for the
planted vegetables shall soon be able tosimilar period. In other words,
get wider at the extent of, for example,according to the satellite data, ice
cabbage and lettuce.melts in Greenland four times quicker
According to the Greenland farmer Bentthan a decade ago.
Oleson, it is not excluded that in



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