Posted on 06/11/2014 6:02:27 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
In early March, a mysterious ship the size of a large passenger ferry left a Romanian wharf, glided through the narrow Bosporus that separates Europe and Asia, and plotted a course toward Scandinavia.
About a month later, at the fenced-in headquarters of Norway's military intelligence service, the country's spy chief disclosed its identity. It was a $250 million spy ship, tentatively named Marjata, that will be equipped with sensors and other technology to snoop on Russia's activities in the Arctic beginning in 2016.
"There is a demand from our political leadership to describe what is going on in this region," Lt. Gen. Kjell Grandhagen said in an interview at the hilltop surveillance base outside Oslo. Of particular interest, he said, are Russia's ambitions to develop oil and gas and shipping opportunities in the Arctic — and the "military aspects in terms of being able to defend that."
As climate change eats away at the sea ice covering the North Pole, Arctic nations are fishing for secrets in East-West spy games echoing Cold War rivalries. The military dimension remains important, but this time there's an economic aspect, too: getting a leg up in the competition for potential oil and gas resources, along with newly accessible shipping lanes and fishing waters.
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Smooth move.
Good story. The problem is, someone needs to tell the Norwegians and the AP that the Arctic isn’t melting. It had more ice growth last year than ever recorded. Norway needs new ice breakers, not South Pacific catamaran’s.
Its corpse has now been zombified--to the peril of the entire world--due to the abject stupidity of Americans who voted subsequent Democrat politicians into power.
Arctic sea ice up 60 percent in 2013
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/09/09/arctic-sea-ice-up-60-percent-in-2013/
September 09, 2013
That was my first thought, the damn ice is not melting, and there’s more of it than ever, geez, they can’t even leave the spy stories alone. They need to infuse every single bloody story with climate change.
Larger ice fields would not fit the agenda of the article and the AP. As a result, just lie and say the ice is melting.
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