Tanada wrote:Alright in honor of the so called holiday today I am trying to be optimistic. Therefore please use this thread to put news and views on the POSITIVE effects of living in a warmer world.
First plus, its will be a lot easier to explore for resources in the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Offshore North Slope Alaska and northern Canada are expected to yield a lot of mineral resources that people desire to exploit.
In 2005, a 66-sq.-km chunk of the Ayles Ice Shelf on Ellesmere Island’s northern coast broke free and began drifting south. Federal scientists kept a close watch on the resulting Ayles Ice Island as it tracked a worrisome route toward the Beaufort Sea, a hot spot for oil exploration.
But in August 2007, the five-by-15-km slab turned down a dead-end channel between Meighen and Axel Heiberg islands, where scientists expected it to slowly break up — probably over decades — and become an anonymous part of the Arctic pack ice.
But less ice also spells opportunity. Under a 1982 international treaty called the Convention on the Law of the Sea, Arctic nations can claim sea floor as national territory if they can prove, by mapping the ocean floor, that the areas are extensions of their continental shelves. The implications are staggering because an estimated 22 percent of the world’s undiscovered oil and gas reserves lies beneath Arctic seas, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Energy and ocean policy consultant Paul Kelly calls the potential expansion “the greatest division of lands on earth possibly ever to occur, if you add up claims around the world.”
The United States, which stands to gain territory the size of California, is woefully behind in the race to develop its territorial claims, critics say. Russia and Norway have already submitted claim applications to a United Nations-based commission that will help determine ownership. Russia and Canada have beefed up their Arctic military forces, and Canada has installed sensors on Devon Island in the high arctic to detect rogue ships.
Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... z0gNFcjk6k
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
dohboi wrote:Yes, Lovelock used to talk about what an exciting time it will be--that is if you are not starving, dying of thirst, being hacked to death by a ravenous mob, or being washed out to sea by a super storm!
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
meemoe_uk wrote:Life in britain would be a lot better....
If I could wave a magic wand and raise global temps by 3C, I'd do it.
Were you a B-movie screenwriter in a previous life?Tanada wrote:dohboi wrote:Yes, Lovelock used to talk about what an exciting time it will be--that is if you are not starving, dying of thirst, being hacked to death by a ravenous mob, or being washed out to sea by a super storm!
I dunno about you but being chased by a mob of hungry, thirsty, machete armed people through a hurricane sounds pretty exciting to me
Gives a new meaning to "London fog".Plantagenet wrote:Of course London would be mostly underwater due to sea level rise but things would be peachy other than that
Keith_McClary wrote:Were you a B-movie screenwriter in a previous life?Tanada wrote:dohboi wrote:Yes, Lovelock used to talk about what an exciting time it will be--that is if you are not starving, dying of thirst, being hacked to death by a ravenous mob, or being washed out to sea by a super storm!
I dunno about you but being chased by a mob of hungry, thirsty, machete armed people through a hurricane sounds pretty exciting to me
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Plantagenet wrote:Every time another "polar vortex" blasts the lower 48, its sunny and warm up here in Alaska. Our weather has been beautiful this winter. We're about 20 degrees above normal with even warmer temps predicted over the rest of the week. The snowpack may even start melting by friday.
I guess thats how global warming is working.....Alaska and other places at high latitudes are warming rapidly, while the mid latitudes and getting a bit more stormy weather.
Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Tanada wrote:Plantagenet wrote:Every time another "polar vortex" blasts the lower 48, its sunny and warm up here in Alaska. Our weather has been beautiful this winter. We're about 20 degrees above normal with even warmer temps predicted over the rest of the week. The snowpack may even start melting by friday.
I guess thats how global warming is working.....Alaska and other places at high latitudes are warming rapidly, while the mid latitudes and getting a bit more stormy weather.
What kind of winter forecast do you have for 14-15 in Alaska Plantagenet? Here in the midwest/great lakes they are saying another winter full of polar vortex cold snowy blasts.
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