ApocaDocs: Global Warming Triggers an International Race for the Arctic

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Posted Fri Oct 10 2008: from U.S. News and World Report:


	Global Warming Triggers an International Race for the Arctic http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1223673353 A new epoch is beginning at the top of the Earth, where the historic melting of the vast Arctic ice cap is opening a forbidding, beautiful, and neglected swath of the planet. Already, there is talk that potentially huge oil and natural gas deposits lie under the Arctic waters, rendered more accessible by the shrinking of ice cover. Valuable minerals, too. Sea lanes over the top of the world will dramatically cut shipping times and costs. Fisheries and tourism will shift northward. In short, the frozen, fragile north will never be the same.

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And all this racing around will just accelerate further climate chaos!