内容摘要：He threatened "Biblical Armageddon" if the UN declared famine.

He threatened "Biblical Armageddon" if the UN declared famine.

"Large parts of the route are far from emergency response capacities, such as search and rescue, and environmental clean-up resources."Increased shipping in this area would require substantial investments in ships, emergency preparedness, infrastructure, and weather forecasting systems, for a route that is unpredictable and has a short operational season. At present, we have no indication that our members view this as commercially interesting."

Mr Mejlaender-Larsen points to a "belief that thanks to global warming there'll be summers up there. That'll never happen. If it's minus 40C and it gets 3C warmer, it's still not warm."Moreover, Prof Arild Moe, from Norwegian research group Fridtjof Nansen Institute, says the entire cold rush of the Arctic was based on exaggerated assumptions. "The exuberance was excessive," says the expert on oil and gas exploration in the region."What the reports from 2008 referred to weren't actual reserves, but potential and highly uncertain resources, which would be risky, expensive, and difficult to locate and exploit."

Regarding Trump's renewed interest in Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory, authorities in Greenland and Denmark were again quick to reply that it wasProf Moe says that Trump's "crude and undiplomatic statement" shows that the US under Trump eyes both security and economic interests in the island, including its "rich mineral resources".

The Danish government also responded by announcing a huge increase in

Elsewhere in the Arctic, Trump isWriting on social media, Trump said he planned to impose a 25% levy on goods from Canada and Mexico and "an additional 10% tariff, above any additional tariffs" on imports from China.

The post followed his campaign pledge to impose across-the-board tariffs of at least 10% on all imports coming into the US, and 60% or more on goods from China - many of which already face steep duties left over from actions taken during his first term as president.Some experts have said that Trump's policies may ultimately prove less aggressive than promised, and that his statements should be understood as opening salvos in bigger negotiations of migration and drug policy.

But regardless of how policy shakes out, the threats are already having economic consequences, as firms like MinkeeBlue start to stockpile, shift supply chains, re-work contracts and take other steps to guard against the possible impact.Chris Caton, managing director for global strategy and analytics at warehouse giant Prologis, said his firm had already seen an uptick in activity "on the margin" as businesses respond to possible tariffs by looking for space to stock up.