North West Passage

The North West Passage seems to be completely free of ice.
This is crazy.

WHOA!!

….how long before the rhetoric around control of the passage really heats up??

Well, we're building a new naval base and building 5 new arctic patrol boats, at the recent SPP meeting Bush claimed it was an international waterway and Harper stated it was Canada's intent to assert their sovereignty over the waters, so I'd say the rhetoric's pretty warm already.

Hot summer my ass. I was in Yukon, albeit not at Northwest Passage latitudes for the duration of the summer and its been a freaking wet and cold summer.

Hmm…global warming? I do not think that it has something to do with the fact that this summer was s%[HTML_REMOVED]" - surf the net and look for some old pics of the same area.

That's got nothing to do with summer.

Well, we're building a new naval base and building 5 new arctic patrol boats, at the recent SPP meeting Bush claimed it was an international waterway and Harper stated it was Canada's intent to assert their sovereignty over the waters, so I'd say the rhetoric's pretty warm already.

I wouldn't consider any of that rhetoric. I think our sovereignty is in question. This should br a way bigger issue to Canadians than it currently is.

it's been a hot summer. ice melts.

someone pass the clever boy some cookies

there's cool little map thing on bbc you can flick through and see the ice cap between 19080 and now

:drool: Maaaaan….the day the BBC makes their time machine open to public use is gonna be crazy!

They built it for Dr. Who.

Kn.

run to the hills. tooontoon tooon tooon to da.
run for your lives. toontoon tooon tooon to da.

:drool: Maaaaan….the day the BBC makes their time machine open to public use is gonna be crazy!

insert rude joke about biospace's back passage