Posted on 04/26/2019 3:42:03 AM PDT by Libloather
The ice in the Arctic is melting and opening new navigation routes, with Russia responding with a fleet of 44 icebreakers and China developing its own fleet although they are nowhere near polar regions.
The United States had just one operational polar-class icebreaker. The 42-year old Polar Star was assigned permanently to Antarctic waters.
"We have to get in the game," Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, said in Seattle on Thursday.
"We are an Arctic nation without Arctic resources," added Murkowski who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.seattlepi.com ...
If Lisa Murkowski thinks it’s a good idea I’m all for it... NOT!
Ice age prepper.
The ice is melting so we need icebreakers. Does this rag even look at what it publishes before it goes out the door?
Why is the Polar Star in the Southern hemisphere?
It will probably take 10 years to get a ship in the water, and Global Warming will kill us all in 11.5 years, so what’s the point?
Hemispheric cooling?
RINO Murkowski must be skimming cash from this project somewhere down the line.
lol..
It supports U.S. scientific activities in Antarctica. It's winter down there now. Lots of ice.
True but it looks like it has been there for a while - not just Winter.
Forget this from the OP:
“The 42-year old Polar Star was assigned permanently to Antarctic waters. “
It’s a hammer, looking for a nail....
Adults finally in charge.
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“Why is the Polar Star in the Southern hemisphere?”
Aren’t there US science stations in Antarctica? Just a guess. My buddies Step Son just did a rotation down there on the Polar Star.
“Why is the Polar Star in the Southern hemisphere?”
Aren’t there US science stations in Antarctica? Just a guess. My buddies Step Son just did a rotation down there on the Polar Star.
What a terrible waste of tax payer dollars. Al Gore said the arctic circle will be ice free by now.
/sarc
39 years overdue.
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