How To Break Ice In Arctic
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How to Break ice in Arctic
Policticians and
Scientists may debate why the earth is wrming,but the fact
remains the Arctic ice cap,estimates say,has shrunk by
nearly half in thelst 50 yeares. This is big news, and not
just becasuse the Arctic is a barometer for global climcate
change. The thwaing of the Arctic will prodeuce major
geographical shifts,many of which will profoundly wffect
international relations. And the united States needs a
foreign poloicy that takes account of this mutatint Arctic
map. For starters, conflicting territorial claims among the
countries that border the Arctic Ocean will rapidly acquire
a new urgency. A quarter of the World?s oil and natural
gas resources lie in the Arctic but until recently polar
ice rendered may of these deposits inaccessible. Now,
witheach poasing year the warmest on record in the
polarregins, the ice is melting and more andmore of these
dposits are being tapped to feed the world?s ravenous
appetite for energy. With the prize of oil
soaring,wildcatters race to hoist derricks in waters where
the ice has retreated. Mitters,loggers and fisherman ar
also chasing newly exploitable natural resources. Yet
perhaps themost significant consequence of themelt is the
rising potential for
Arctic navigatino. The polast
thaw may lead to what would be the most tranformational
maritime project since the Panama Canal: an arctic
Bridge. The holy grail of a short cut form the north
atlantic to the lured explorers to extreme latitudes for
centuries. Those explorers dream could become a rea,ity in
our lifetime. An arctic marine highway madepossibleby the
dwindling of sea ice would cut existing oceanic transit
times by days,saving shippingcompanies(and navies,smugglers
and terrorists)thousands of miles in travel.. Seveeral
studies show that trip over the north pole is on average
5,000 nauticallmiles, or up to week of sailing time,shorter
that traditinoal routes through the panama and suez canals
or,for balloning me4gaships unable to fit through the
cnals,around the cape of good hope and cape horn.
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