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4 replies on “Polar ice cap vanishing.”
Um… that’s not good.
Completely aside from the global warming implications (such as meltwater from the nearby Greenland ice cap halting the Gulf Stream return loop and plunging Europe into another Ice Age), this does open up the possibility of transpolar freight.
I just need to stop reading anything about the North Pole or polar bears. It depresses the hell out of me. I feel so helpless.
Looks like the Pentagon will be pulling out those plans for an amphibious invasion of Russia …
Um… that’s not good.
Completely aside from the global warming implications (such as meltwater from the nearby Greenland ice cap halting the Gulf Stream return loop and plunging Europe into another Ice Age), this does open up the possibility of transpolar freight.
I just need to stop reading anything about the North Pole or polar bears. It depresses the hell out of me. I feel so helpless.
Looks like the Pentagon will be pulling out those plans for an amphibious invasion of Russia …