I wonder who will be the first sailor to travel it...new name to learn in History Class!

Among Other Benefits To Humanity More Than 70 Years Too Late...

The North-West Passage is open? Now I can defeat Megaboz and save the Great Underground Empire.

This is my first fark post. Hi.

The North-West Passage sits in waters owned by Canada. However, rights of access are disputed between it and the United States, threatening major diplomatic battles when ships start to pass through.

Like the U.S. is going to bother being diplomatic with a bunch of hosers. Unless Ottawa wants the Kabul treatment, they'll step aside.

El Derado, the northwest passage, now all we need is for someone to find the fountain of youth in the mens room of Epcot Center.

geez, Northwest passage opens, and all they can think about is terrorism...

Oh, and we'll threaten to repatriate William Shatner. They'll crap their longjohns over that one.

I won't be impressed until they find a space-time rift wormhole thingee that lets me go back to the FF7 world...

In other news, the Denver Pacific Beach will be ready to open in about 100 years.

Those of you living in the North American interior better hope isostatic rebound speeds up a bit. :)

Global warming? Pahh. The so-called opening of the north-west passage is just another part of the world-wide conspiracy between communists, treehuggers and assorted terrorists. Any American sailing these waters will in effect be supporting the terrorists. God bless us all.

The assertion that Canada does not maintain sovreignty over Arctic Canadian waters is bullshiat. The Canadian Coast Guard maintains patrols and icebreaking throughout the arctic archepelago. The Coast Guard provides guidance and oversight for international traffic through the Northwest Passage.

http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/ice-gla/arctique.htm

With the recent aquisition of several new submarines, patrols in the Arctic will be even more effective.

While North caps are getting thinner,
South caps are getting thicker.

South caps thicker link.

stupid typo

Hoax! Hoax! HOAX!!! Global warming is proven to be a fraud, just a scam so people can make money without working for it and governments can have more control over the people. Climate fluctuates on a 400-year cycle; in 1200 c.e. it was so warm that colonies could flourish on the south tip of Greenland; by 1600 c.e. it was so cold they called it the "little Ice Age". We are coming to a peak of a 400-year hot cycle right now, so of course the weather is hot. If the sun rises just after the rooster's cackadoodling, does that say one causes the other???

Looks like the US Navy will need some of these:

"A newly declassified US Navy report says new surface fleets of winter-hardened ships will have to be built. . .to intervene in territorial disputes between Arctic nations."


So we have to settle disputes between Canada....and Canada???

TV's_Frank-

Canada,Greenland,Russia and The U.S.

I was thinking that this could be cool, a way to pipe oil directly from Russia (sure they'd like the infusion of US $, cheaper than the Saudis, and fewer terrorists), but the more I thought about it, we might as well extend the Alaska Pipeline underwater to Russia, and just get it that way. Sure, we'd take a chance on massive ecological damage, but so long as the average Farker can cruise around town in his gas-guzzling SUV, it's all good.

Greenland is of court part of the mighty Danish empire, which you puny Americans will soon learn to fear for its seemingly random acts of cruelty.

Those icecaps aren't melting because of global warming... They're melting because of all those sattelites with "microwave devices" they have pointed at them... DUH!

Do you even know what global warming is? It is the warming of the Earth - not triggered specifically by man. The fact that the Earth is warming proves that it is real.

And pumping more gases into the atmopshere which traps more heat in, does affect local climate. Of course as it gets warming one place, it gets cooler in another. Jet streams and weather patterns change and react to the warming, and the rest is documented. That is why the southern ice caps are thickening, while the northern ones are thinning.

I will spanksturbate into the ocean so there will be Sprammy-sperm in the North West Passage!

It will be called the WATCH OUT! THERE'S SPRAMMY SPERM IN THE WATER passage.

arrg!
beware of de ice pirates!

yaarrg!

FifthColumn:

Just curious. Do you really think that because it's hotter in one place it is necessarily cooler somewhere else? Moisture tends to act in this way, but temperature does not.

And global warming probably shouldn't be the main issue, because if it is found that humans are so gentle and innocent that they don't affect the earth at all, then people will start thinking "well gee, we can pollute as much as we want, since so-and-so told me global warming is fake and cooked up by the pinko tree hugger fags to keep me down while they implant mind controlling devices." People think that global warming is a hoax and thus they don't have to take responsibility for their polluting.

The main issue is air quality: each day we kill ourselves more by putting more shiat in the air that won't go away for a long, long, long time. If people stop doing that, then who cares about global warming? If it truly is caused by humans, then it will stop. If it truly is caused by nature, then it will continue but atleast we won't be breathing in shiat at every breath. If it is a combination of the two, then we will slow down the process and let nature take it's course. I fail to see how we lose by taking economic responsibility. Oh, that's right: can't drive the SUVs that get 11 mpg, can't leave the sink running for 3 minutes while we shave or brush our teeth (on average a bathroom sink can use 1 gallon a water a minute), can't leave the computer running all day when I'm not on it.

People talk about responsibility, yet fail to rise to the ocassion when it affects their irresponsible life.

Nordo: not all the time, but I do believe that as it gets warming in one place, the system will eventually find a new place to dump the cooler air by currents.

Although it's been a while since I last had my Earth Science classes, so I am probably forgetting a thing or two which I should have includded.

Hoosier: oh nos!

"People talk about responsibility, yet fail to rise to the ocassion when it affects their irresponsible life."

That's malarkey AND baloney. Besides, socialists don't advocate personal responsibility: they feel people are too dumb to take care of themselves and thus need more "uh-leet guvermint jeeniuses" to micromanage our lives.


Thank Calculon most Farkers retain a high level of smartosity about these non-issues. :D


www.anxietycenter.com THE EARTH IS FINE, SAVE YOURSELF.

Sir: uh, I don't know how to reply to your response since it seems you veered off what I was talking about. I don't see anything about Socialism, or more government in our lives: I was talking about, however, people should take more responsibility on geopolitical issues. The earth is fine, but humans are not. Every year we put more crap in the air we breathe, and people want less restrictions on them and companies so they can further ruin themselves?

Humans are incapable of killing the planet, but they are plenty capable of rendering their lives at stake by this bullshiat "deny deny deny" phase some are stuck in.

Some say it's pretty arogant to think humans can cause that much damage (a common argument): I say it's pretty arogant to think humans to be that innocent..

FifthColumn Dude, just chill, okay? Just make a few cracks about Canadians and everything will be fine.

Are we going to war with Canada?

Awesome.

Sorry, Sir Chevron, but you might want to recommend a less ideologically-based website. I mean, when a page displays this:



It's pretty easy to see exactly what they're basing their "junk science" on.

All hail the Royal Canadian Navy, protector of the seas and the cute baby seals.

Global warming may or may not be caused by human activity, and cutting down on greenhouse emissions may or may not help the situation. However we can take steps to reduce the problem. The answer is to increase the earth's albedo by putting as much light-colored particulate matter into the atmosphere as possible. To this end, I suggest that we detonate nuclear devices in sandy areas of the planet, and in areas containing any other light-colored natural features, such as quartz or granite deposits. We also need to start burning the forests to get as much smoke up there as we can.

A newly declassified US Navy report says new surface fleets of winter-hardened ships will have to be built to patrol Arctic waters and protect Western trade routes from terrorism, piracy and smuggling, and to intervene in territorial disputes between Arctic nations.

So, the USA is going to fight with Canada over who has the right to stop nasty Arab terrorists coming in over the Pole?

When everything gets flooded like in AI, the Beaches will be in the Middle East.

There's an optimist for everything.

Why exactly does the US Navy beleive it is its responsibility to police the Arctic? I'm not normally anti-American, but those statements are imperialistic bullshiat.

Wow, now maybe they'll find the Hand of Franklin at last, floating along the shoreline...