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The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet...
So says the United States Coast Guard and reality.
...but then it's all really just a leftist conspiracy isn't it?
So says the United States Coast Guard and reality.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/opinion/23homer-dixon.html?src=me&ref=homepage
In 1994, the Louie, as the crew calls the ship, and a United States Coast Guard icebreaker, the Polar Sea, smashed their way to the North Pole through thousands of miles of pack ice six- to nine-feet thick. The sea conditions in the Arctic Ocean were rarely an issue for us in those days, because the thick continuous ice kept waves from forming, Marc Rothwell, the Louies captain, told me.
Now, theres so much open water that we have to account for heavy swells that undulate through the sea ice. Its almost like a dream: the swells move in slow motion, like nothing Ive seen elsewhere.
The Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, and this summer its sea ice is melting at a near-record pace. The sun is heating the newly open water, so it will take longer to refreeze this winter, and the resulting thinner ice will melt more easily next summer.
...but then it's all really just a leftist conspiracy isn't it?