Energy consumption and the environment


Citizens of Greenland Enjoy Global Warming

In many regions of the world the globalAccording to the Greenland farmer Bent
warming is considered the sign of theOleson, it is not excluded that in future
approaching nature cataclysm. Citizens ofseal hunters and fishers shall start planting
Greenland, an autonomous territory ofvegetables and strawberries. Oleson himself
Denmark, on the contrary, believe that thishas recently switched to agriculture and
process  has  its  definite  advantages.built in one of the island regions a network
of hotbeds warmed by the solar batteries all
According to representatives of the localthe  year  round.
authorities, as a result of ice melting and
stable increase in temperature which inAs a result he managed to collect a quite
summer time already makes up 20 gradesgood harvest of tomatoes and even bananas
centigrade the vegetation period becomeswith  high  taste  qualities.
longer.
The scientists have stated that the process
So far, population of the biggest island inof melting of the ice covering Greenland
the world in most cases does with plantingtakes places quicker that they have
early sorts of potatoes and cold-resistancepredicted. If before 2004 the ice surface in
turnip.the south-east part of the island had been
decreasing in approximately 50-100 cubic
However, according to the experts, due tokilometers annually, at present, this
climate changes the range of the plantedindicator has grown up to 300 kilometers for
vegetables shall soon be able to get wider atthe similar period. In other words, according
the extent of, for example, cabbage andto the satellite data, ice melts in Greenland
lettuce.four times quicker than a decade ago.



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