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Seabed covering vast fields of oil untapped unitl now , not to mention brand new fishing grounds and shipping routes amazingly faster than the old ones. And Denmark would have a big old island, for what? They don't have enough people to populate it and few Danes would be willing to go anyway. If the warming gets that bad (which it probably won't) You'd still have a vast trackless island with no infrastructure and little incentive to develop far beyond the coast, it would probably end up having the climate of Alaska.
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Its interesting to speculate on what the future holds with a radical change like this. I'd have figured the whole North Pole like the Caribbean, but even if it was more like the North Atlantic, we'd see Denmark full of trees and the danes are very clean and environmentally sensitive. They'd be sure to protect the environment and sensibly develop Greenland so it really was green. I wonder whether it would be part of the EU or integrated in NAFTA. I don't think there are too few Danes, they have the backing of the whole EU and NATO if they need it.
Any trade should take into account the emerging economies in the climate changed world. If the North Pole melts, waters rise and wash out the European coastline and US Atlantic Seaboard and, trade from these areas would be less important, but if the Coastlines along the trade route didn't change much, harbours along the way from Amsterdam to Yokohama would be along Norway's western coastline to Hammerfest and from there true north with rests at Norway's Spitsbergen islands and then to Barrow in Alaska, from there to Japan. Greenland's northern coast would be the best suited for the construction of harbours and shipping installations.
But what will happen elsewhere in this global climate change. Does Africa continue to desertify, the Antartic get colder, do densely populated Asian coastlines get submerged too?