Article snippet: The Wall Street Journal broke the news Thursday evening that President Trump was interested in acquiring Greenland — a remote, semiautonomous territory that is officially part of Denmark. Trump has reportedly asked the White House counsel to look into the idea, which has caused bafflement among Danish politicians and Greenland residents. “We’re open for business, not for sale,” a tweet from the Greenland Ministry of Foreign Affairs read. Denmark’s former prime minister tweeted that it “must be an April Fool’s Day joke” out of season. “We are talking about real people and you can’t just sell Greenland like an old colonial power,” a Danish lawmaker told Reuters. Indeed, while the idea seems like it came out of left field, a number of analysts have sought to discern the logic behind it. So, why Greenland? According to multiple reports, Trump is interested in the “natural resources” of Greenland. Though its surface is 80 percent covered by ice and snow, studies have shown that as the earth warms because of climate change, a number of valuable resources will become accessible to mining. According to the Brookings Institution, that includes “iron ore, lead, zinc, diamonds, gold, rare earth elements, uranium, and oil.” For a president who has repeatedly claimed climate change is a hoax, interest in the natural resources of Greenland is a highly unexpected position. But members of Trump’s administration have already been discussing the fallout of melting Arctic ice with... Link to the full article to read more