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September 2, 2008 5:09 PM   Subscribe

For the first time in human history, the North Pole can now be circumnavigated. Images gathered by NASA show that the North-west passage opened last weekend and that the last blockage on the north-eastern one – a tongue of ice stretching down to Russia across Siberia's Laptev Sea – dissolved a few days later. Already, shipping companies are looking forward to exploiting the new passageway, with the Beluga Group in Germany announcing that it will sail the north-east passage to Japan next year. "It's very different from in the past when you had a low year and you tended to rebound. We haven't been doing that anymore," says Julienne Stroeve, a research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Centre in Colorado. Of course, some are more immediately effected than others.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing (21 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a very nice post but needs to go in the thread from a few days ago. -- jessamyn



 
Great. Just great. Do we need more evidence?
posted by VicNebulous at 5:11 PM on September 2, 2008


?
posted by pwb503 at 5:11 PM on September 2, 2008


God damn it, just saw this is a double, more or less.

My apologies for not utilizing the search function.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 5:12 PM on September 2, 2008


pwnt
posted by Addiction at 5:12 PM on September 2, 2008


It's a good double at least.
posted by pwb503 at 5:12 PM on September 2, 2008


This is a nice expansion on the FPP from a few days ago, but I suspect you'll be told to move this over there.
posted by chudmonkey at 5:13 PM on September 2, 2008


Shame that.
posted by pompomtom at 5:13 PM on September 2, 2008


Good post though.
posted by Samuel Farrow at 5:14 PM on September 2, 2008


Gone.
posted by homunculus at 5:18 PM on September 2, 2008


Meet the Scottish Wildcat
posted by homunculus at 5:24 PM on September 2, 2008


LAST POST
posted by Hat Maui at 5:26 PM on September 2, 2008


PSYCH!
posted by Hat Maui at 5:26 PM on September 2, 2008


Cue Stan Rogers
posted by briank at 5:27 PM on September 2, 2008


I'm more partial to the Manx, or the Mexian Hairless, because I feel sorry for them. Not that I'd ever own one of those ugly critters.
posted by Marisa Stole the Precious Thing at 5:27 PM on September 2, 2008


Damn, I was going to make a Stan Rogers joke too. Comment double!
posted by GuyZero at 5:28 PM on September 2, 2008


In a world where your favorite cat is a freak of nature.......
posted by longsleeves at 5:28 PM on September 2, 2008 [1 favorite]


The ice cap is trying to beat James Brown's record for most number of deaths. And circumnavigations.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 5:33 PM on September 2, 2008




My favorite cat is Kung Pao Siberian Tiger, as they have the fat reserves to make for a tasty... oh wait, global warming isn't that bad yet? Nevermind, I'll post on this later.
posted by BrotherCaine at 5:37 PM on September 2, 2008 [1 favorite]


The ice cap is trying to beat James Brown's record for most number of deaths. And circumnavigations.

And deletions.
posted by the_bone at 5:41 PM on September 2, 2008


Don LaFontaine is still ahead of the ice cap for double-and-triple-posts, and since he was considered by many The Hardest Working Man in Show Biz after James Brown, it's only appropriate.
posted by wendell at 5:54 PM on September 2, 2008


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