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“If the melting continues, as many Arctic experts expect, the mass of floating ice that has crowned the planet for millions of years may largely disappear for entire summers this century. Instead of the white wilderness that killed explorers and defeated navigators for centuries, the world would have a blue pole on top, a seasonally open sea nearly five times the size of the Mediterranean.”
-- CLIFFORD KRAUSS, STEVEN LEE MYERS, ANDREW C. REVKIN and SIMON ROMERO, "As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound" for The NY Times
Here is a different look at global warming. Instead of doomsday scenarios, this mass of journalists show us the blooming of new riches and opportunities. New great travel routes are opening up. The fish are settling into new waterways. And then there are natural resources such as oil. Of course, this also means competition and conflict, the new Great Game for territory and power:
“Claims of expanded territory are being pursued the world over, but the Arctic Ocean is where experts foresee the most conflict. Only there do the boundaries of five nations - Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and the United States - converge, the way sections of an orange meet at the stem.”
Places like New Orleans may sink, but life goes on.
And Canada is looking better and better!
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“If the melting continues, as many Arctic experts expect, the mass of floating ice that has crowned the planet for millions of years may largely disappear for entire summers this century. Instead of the white wilderness that killed explorers and defeated navigators for centuries, the world would have a blue pole on top, a seasonally open sea nearly five times the size of the Mediterranean.”
-- CLIFFORD KRAUSS, STEVEN LEE MYERS, ANDREW C. REVKIN and SIMON ROMERO, "As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound" for The NY Times
Here is a different look at global warming. Instead of doomsday scenarios, this mass of journalists show us the blooming of new riches and opportunities. New great travel routes are opening up. The fish are settling into new waterways. And then there are natural resources such as oil. Of course, this also means competition and conflict, the new Great Game for territory and power:
“Claims of expanded territory are being pursued the world over, but the Arctic Ocean is where experts foresee the most conflict. Only there do the boundaries of five nations - Russia, Canada, Denmark, Norway and the United States - converge, the way sections of an orange meet at the stem.”
Places like New Orleans may sink, but life goes on.
And Canada is looking better and better!
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