DEEP CONCERN ABOUT AUSTRALIA FUTURE IN FAST RAISING SEAS

GREENLAND

ICY GREENLAND WARMING TO WORLD CLIMATE CHANGE
In few parts of the world is climate change more real -- and personal
-- than here. And some residents are welcoming it.
BY DOUG STRUCK
Washington Post Service
Posted on Sun, Jun. 17, 2007
http://www.miamiherald.com/578/story/142048.html

QAQORTOQ, Greenland --
The biggest island in the world is a wind-raked place, gripped by ice
over four-fifths of its land, prowled by polar bears, its coastlines
choked by drifting icebergs and sea ice. Many of its 56,000 people,
who live on the fringes of its giant ice cap, see the effects of
global warming -- and cheer it on.

''It's good for me,'' said Ernst Lund, a lanky young man who is one of
51 farmers raising sheep on the southern tip of Greenland. His animals
scramble over the cold granite hills of a dramatic fiord, his farm
isolated from the nearest town by a long boat ride threading past
drifting mounds of ice, followed by a jolting truck trip along seven
miles of gravel road.

''I can keep the sheep out two weeks longer to feed in hills in the
autumn. And I can grow more hay. The sheep get fatter,'' he said.

In few parts of the world is climate change more real -- and personal
-- than here. The Arctic is feeling the globe's fastest warming. At a
science station in the ice-covered interior of Greenland, average
winter temperatures rose nearly 11 degrees Fahrenheit from 1991 to
2003. Winters are shorter, ice is melting, and fish and animals are on
the move.

A rapid meltdown and fast-sliding glaciers in Greenland could raise
sea levels around the world and flood coastal cities and farmland. The
infusion of cold water could jolt the Gulf Stream, alter weather
throughout the Northern Hemisphere and scatter fish and marine stocks.

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