[Trailer Trash]

Hmmm... Perhaps a boost for the Bering Strait Tunnel?

[Trailer Trash]

Foxtrot Yankee India

[Dog Gone]

Another benefit from global warming.

[Tacis]

Isn't year 'round access to the Arctic ice just God's way of telling us there are too many baby seals and it's all right to go get 'em?

[Travis McGee]

Great for trade over the top, pulling Russia, Canada and the USA more tightly together as partners.

[GeronL]

yee haw!!

Buy some Northern Canadian farmland now!!

[AlaskaErik]

Last winter the Bering Sea was effectively ice-free, which is unprecedented, and if this big melt continues, some say the formerly ice-locked Arctic will have open sea lanes as soon as 2015.

Just in time for me to take a retirement sailboat trip to the east coast!

[RightWhale]

more precipitation and worsening weather north of Alaska

Haven't seen that in Fairbanks. It's been fairly dry for a couple years. There might be 18" of snow on the ground, total all winter. And we are headed into the dry season, March through June; if it gets hot in June [80] we would expect a lot of smoke from those tundra fires, or maybe the whole state will finally burn down.

Opening the Bering Strait year-round would cut down the influx of nomadic hunters, excepting those who drive up the Alaska Highway.

[sheik yerbouty]

Nuclear winter offsets global warning.