 As Russian Military Moves into Thawing Arctic, U.S. Strategy Shifts Climate change is causing the U.S. military to alter its plans in the Arctic as Russia takes advantage of a warming world to deploy radar and personnel in thawing regions, two generals told a Senate panel yesterday.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 2 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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The Empirical evidence would state otherwise, ships have begun to use the Northwest Passage.
https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/shippi ... ly-triples
The actual data shows that ship traffic in the NWP is still very rare.
https://map.astd.is/share/ea58baecfc69
The other thing to be considered is that there's more going on in the Arctic these days than back in 1990.
Most of the ship traffic is government vessels going north to study global warming and it would appear that they're using their own research activities as 'proof' that there's more traffic in the Arctic.
Have these generals been fired yet for speaking in a manner contrary to official administration policy?
Meh, they just won't get promoted is all. Terminal rank is the operational phrase for some of these people.
The Arctic is not thawing.
The Arctic is not thawing.
The Empirical evidence would state otherwise, ships have begun to use the Northwest Passage.
https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/shippi ... ly-triples
The actual data shows that ship traffic in the NWP is still very rare.
https://map.astd.is/share/ea58baecfc69
The other thing to be considered is that there's more going on in the Arctic these days than back in 1990.
Maritime traffic in the Canadian Arctic has exploded in the last 30 years:
Bulk carriers, tankers, tug boats, cargo ships, fishing boats, cruise ships and even personal yachts all contributed to the rise in traffic, which has coincided with increased economic diversification in Nunavut. Mining, for example, now accounts for 21.5 per cent of the territory’s economy, up from less than four per cent a decade ago, according to the rating agency DBRS Ltd.
https://business.financialpost.com/comm ... -the-north
Most of the ship traffic is government vessels going north to study global warming and it would appear that they're using their own research activities as 'proof' that there's more traffic in the Arctic.
Not entirely true - now you've got huge tankers, freighters and even cruise ships like the Crystal Serenity in the Arctic in the summer months.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... ommunities
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2019/02/
Maybe someone will find that North West Passage people have been looking for.
Found it!!!
The sea ice coverage in the Arctic *right now* is right on par with where it was in 1981.
https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/2019/02/
But the concentration (thickness) isn't.
Sea Ice 1981 2019.png
https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/bist