The abandoned Cold War base at Camp Century, Greenland

Aug 5, 2016 5:40:19 GMT -8 BlueBear said:

It would be one spot on the ice sheet seeping contaminants while large amounts of ice all around it are also melting.

So what was left by America will be distributed by currents to other countries, becoming like some other contaminated sites, a "gift" that keeps on giving?

I should add this to the "what I don't understand" thread - how American "leadership" can take such arbitrary positions on our so-called leadership capabilities when there are these kinds of dark, malevolent behaviors from the past that demonstrate anything but leadership.

On a frivolous note, I see commercial interests jumping on the bandwagon...perhaps another "The Thing" movie, more sci-fi movies like the Onion article with explorers discovering mutants or aliens living secretly in the Arctic, maybe some megaladons, or even a superior race that threatens to annihilate us because they've been trapped with toxic waste for decades. Leave it to the movie industry to find some way to capitalize on this.

But on a serious note, it's sad, frightening, and makes me hope I'm not still around as this discovery plays out, and perhaps more similar sites are discovered in the next decades, if not sooner.   

Thanks for sharing this article; it is disturbing, but necessary to read.