As Warming Melts Arctic Ice, U.S. Navy Races to Control New Territory

Daily Tech ^ | February 1, 2010 5:00 PM | Jason Mick (Blog)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

U.S. Navy plans a carrot and stick approach for resource rivals, while trying to internally do its part to combat climate change

The warming of our world is melting the ice that traditionally has covered the Arctic raising the prospect of the first mostly ice-free Arctic summer in centuries.  This offers some benefits -- access to new underwater resources, shipping routes, and faster travel routes.  However, it also offers a greatly heightened risk of territorial conflicts.

Five nations are competing heavily for the resource of the Arctic -- the United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark, and China.  A number of others are eying the region as well, which may contain more than 160 billion barrels of oil.

A leading armed forces publication, the Navy Times, interviewed

U.S. Navy officials about how they are preparing for the changes -- and the race that will follow.  Rear Adm. David Titley, oceanographer of the Navy, states, "The Arctic is changing, and it is changing rapidly.  If the Navy does not start looking at this today … we could wake up in seven or eight years and find ourselves way behind the power curve."

Recently, climatologists have bumped estimates of ice free summers from the end of the twenty-first century to about 2030. "Ice free" is defined as a summer in which their are several weeks in which there is less than 10 percent aerial ice coverage.

[BOBTHENAILER]

Saw that a couple of days about the Exxon rig deal. Those are classified “elephant hunters”. We can only hope the nope and change greenies don’t cede the Arctic reserves to the Soviets, et al.

[Funee Kat]

What with the IPCC gig looking kind of sketchy, Dr. P is just stayin ahead of the curve.

[Old Professer]

"Recently, climatologists have bumped estimates of ice free summers from the end of the twenty-first century to about 2030. "Ice free" is defined as a summer in which their are several weeks in which there is less than 10 percent aerial ice coverage." I believe this should have read, "areal."

[mosesdapoet]

A Canadian biologist/ Geo scientist, Patteron while attempting to uncover fluctuations in fish populations uncovered the cause of the earths cooling warming cycle and proved conclusively that CO2 is the not the cause.

A summary of his finding which first appeared in the Canadian Ecomomist in 07 can be found in http://www.theusmat.com/ with a link to the original story which must be requested.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Found this in the Google Cache:

Read the sunspots

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Statistics needed -- The Deniers Part I
Warming is real -- and has benefits -- The Deniers Part II
The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science -- The Deniers Part III
Polar scientists on thin ice -- The Deniers Part IV
The original denier: into the cold -- The Deniers Part V
The sun moves climate change -- The Deniers Part VI
Will the sun cool us? -- The Deniers Part VII
The limits of predictability -- The Deniers Part VIII
Look to Mars for the truth on global warming -- The Deniers Part IX
Limited role for C02 -- the Deniers Part X
End the chill -- The Deniers Part XI
Clouded research -- The Deniers Part XII
Allegre's second thoughts -- The Deniers XIII
The heat's in the sun -- The Deniers XIV
Unsettled Science -- The Deniers XV
Bitten by the IPCC -- The Deniers XVI
Little ice age is still within us -- The Deniers XVII
Fighting climate 'fluff' -- The Deniers XVIII
Science, not politics -- The Deniers XIX
Gore's guru disagreed -- The Deniers XX
The ice-core man -- The Deniers XXI
Some restraint in Rome -- The Deniers XXII
Discounting logic -- The Deniers XXIII
Dire forecasts aren't new -- The Deniers XXIV
They call this a consensus? - Part XXV
NASA chief Michael Griffin silenced - Part XXVI
Forget warming - beware the new ice age - Part XXVII

[Nevermore]

One of the most telling aspects of ClimberGate (my abbreviation of what she calls "Studentdissertation....gate") is that the entire claim had to rely on recent anecdotes.
Are we to believe that there were zero technical studies on mountain ice?
Color me skeptical. I have a hunch that none of the technical studies had the "right" conclusions.

[Doohickey]

United States, Russia, Canada, Denmark, and China.

Which one of these things doesn't belong?

[colorado tanker]

The shrinking ice peaked in 2007. In 2008 peak winter ice was more extensive and in 2009 more extensive yet.

I read a story about some enviros who sailed the Northwest Passage last summer to prove it was "open." They had a close call when they were surrounded by sea ice. Only a lucky change in the winds saved their vessel. :-))

[mosesdapoet]

That’s not it.. The article reviewed to in my website goes into the method and the science Patterson used to arrive at his definitive conclusion CO2 is not the cause of global warming which is in the link I provided.

I prefer to use this scientific explanation debunking CO2 because it is simple, easy to understand, and it was done by someone who didn’t have a horse in the CO2 debunking race. It was an accidental discovery on which the author Patterson, did not even put his name to it ,The “Patterson Effect” I did. Its Pure science.

[3niner]

This is stupid, Arctic ice does not melt in January and February.

[Marine_Uncle]

Regarding the main issue of the post. What are all these nations going to do if the Arctic Ocean freezes up dramatically over the next twenty or thirty years.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK...thought it might be....would be nice to have the article.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

No answers out of Obama and his friends on that question....still waiting.

[Marine_Uncle]

We may have a long wait...

[Enchante]

since liberals would not allow the USA to access any minerals and oil/gas etc. that may exist in the region, we may as well leave it all to countries who will do something useful with it (kidding, sort of, but not about the first part)

[mosesdapoet]

“thought it would be nice to have the article”

Yea, I wanted it to support my review as well. The original was posted in FR’s (Drudge also carried it) showing the Financial Post June 07 origination. That narrative went into detail how Patterson arrived at his conclusions when I posted my review. After a month or so I morgued (stored) the story. When I refiled (re-posted), the link to the original was gone.
While keeping the title The National Post dropped it for some reason and worked up a re-write which is what you see now..
All of the current google listings to the story carrys the C.N.P. current offering including Wickipedia but not the original article which was far more interesting.

[OkiMusashi]

“Ice Free”??

Dude, last summer, the Top Gear boys filmed a 400 mile CAR vs Dog race to the North Pole.

The CARS won, btw, .... and it sure didn’t look “Ice Free” to me.

[OkiMusashi]

LOL .. coulda written that better.

Anyway, we’ve got a looong way to go.