Saturday, September 15, 2007

Arctic ice melt opens Northwest Passage

Arctic ice has shrunk to the lowest level on record, new satellite images show, raising the possibility that the Northwest Passage that eluded famous explorers will become an open shipping lane.
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Anonymous said...

New oil-filled lamps for old!

Get them nationalistic, double-hulled oil tankers up there fast! Stake your claim today, Arctic -bordering nations! Oil! Minerals! Leibenstraum! Oops...
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Funny, isn't it, in an incredulously horrifying way, how all the melt-rate models have been too conservative? How the ice seems to be melting faster, and at an increasingly faster _rate_, than all those prior climate models and projections? How badly "off-reality" are our modeling techniques? What once was 2100, then 2080, then 2050, may now be as close as 2030 to 2040 at currently predicted melt-rates. And what if _those_ models are missing some further critical aspect?

Get out the surfboards of destiny!

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