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Countries Plan Land Rush in Warming Arctic
Noel Bourke sent in a pointer to this story about northern nations maneuvering to claim land in the Arctic. Fossil fuels, shipping lanes, and fishing are among the economic interests at stake, in an opportunity opened up by the melting Arctic ice.
"Back off, get your own arctic!" - Canada
And the Antartic freezes back up.
6000 years later everyone will be standing around a block of ice that washes ashore gawking at the well preserved specimen of prehistoric man.
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
This could increase the risk of oil spills and introduce species such as rats to the ecoregion, which could have drastic consequences for nesting seabirds.
Well there's an easy solution to the rat problem. Just import a bunch of cats into the region and they'll take care of the rats handily. Then the seabirds can nest in peace. Oh, wait...
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Now, you know, I've never ever seen a Mercator projection on a globe, since I would have thought it was quite unnecessary.
I would be interested in knowing how that's done.
"You know your god is man-made when he hates all the same people you do."
Think of it like this: take a glass of water and put a rubber duck in it. The duck floats, yes? Now push the duck down so that it's top is even with the top of the water. What happens to the water? Same thing that will happen to our oceans when that freshwater melts.
So you are saying that a glacier weighs the same as a duck and is therefore a witch?
> (you know, like my rubber duckie in the tub)
You know, Moofie, thaere are some things that you just don't admit to on SlashDot.
Actually, the apparent contradiction in reputation for temperament between Scandinavians and Vikings can be explained even more easily than that:
A Viking is a Scandinavian without his coffee.
David Gould
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