Canada's largest national marine conservation area is to be created to protect a large, biodiverse area of Arctic water
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The Russian Defense Ministry released an online virtual tour of their state-of-the-art Arctic military base…it’s awesome.
Fox News reported on the images, and they freaked out over Russia’s move into the Arctic.
Aside from some snide remarks about showing dogs in the deck of images (Fox News inferring that by showing photos of animals, the Russian military was trying to soften up, a sinister plot to take over the Arctic) the base was reluctantly admired by the American TV outlet.
Not bad for a country in “tatters”, as former POTUS Obama once noted.
An iceberg captured on camera during a 30-day mission in 2012 to map areas of the Arctic aboard the NOAA Ship Fairweather. (Photo: National Ocean Service Image Gallery)
Every year, at roughly the same time, the Arctic hits its ‘maximum sea ice’ as the Antarctic reaches its ‘minimum sea ice’.
And this year’s event was record-breaking.
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson shake hands at a signing ceremony of an agreement between state-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft and Exxon Mobil corporation at the Black Sea port of Tuapse, southern Russia, Friday, June 15, 2012. (AP Photo/RIA-Novost)
ExxonMobil will return to its Arctic partnership with Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft once the US government lifts sanctions against Moscow, a top executive said earlier this year.
By Paul Homewood | Not A Lot Of People Know That | November 20, 2016 Daily mean temperature and climate north of the 80th northern parallel, as a function of the day of year. http://ocean.dmi.dk/arctic/meant80n.uk.php There has been much excitement about much of the Arctic being warmer than usual at the moment. The Washington Post […]
It’s happening! Humanity’s greatest nightmare is already well underway.
Wherever ice is found, appreciable melt is deep-seated, out of control, cascading into the seas shore-to-shore all across the planet. It’s all about too much heat! The trend is in place, and it is accelerating. Global warming is very real.
Thus, the most pertinent questions going forward are: How fast it occurs, and when will coastal cities start erecting levees?
A favorite exam question in my first-year climate class was, “Why is the North Pole warmer than the South Pole?” I changed it each year, to confuse students who looked at last year’s exam; “Why is the South Pole colder than the North Pole?” Most people have no idea about the geography of the Poles […]
Governments must get a grip on a situation which IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, has ignored. A strategy of mitigation and adaptation is doomed to fail. It will be impossible to adapt to the worst consequences of global warming, as IPCC suggests.
— John Nissen, Chairman, AMEG1
Free speech is essential to freedom, but with it comes a level of personal responsibility. Supposedly, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes recognized this in his observations about shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre. People assume this meant you can’t do it, but his original comment included the critical word, “falsely”. In the US, your right to […]
RT | August 9, 2014 US oil giant ExxonMobil and Russia’s Rosneft will continue joint exploitation of the Russian Arctic despite Western sanctions, the American company said as the two giants launched exploration drilling in the Kara Sea. “Our cooperation is a long-term one. We see great benefits here and are ready to continue working […]
