http://www.athropolis.com/arctic-facts/fact-nwpassage.htm
(Don't worry it's a very quick little blurb, about the Northwest Passage)
2007-12-12 23:59:34 · 5 answers · asked by Mikira 5 in Environment ➔ Global Warming
Oh I forgot to add the map:
http://www.athropolis.com/map9.htm
2007-12-13 00:01:59 · update #1
Nickel - Here's information on Polar Bear Habitats:
http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/geog/lakeform/lf_1.html
Main Point:
"Polar bears, or their tracks, have been reported almost as far north as the pole; however, scientists believe few bears frequent areas north of 88° north latitude. The northern Arctic Ocean has little food for them."
2007-12-13 00:48:56 · update #2
Better use it soon. NASA has determined that natural causes, not "global warming" has caused the ice to melt.
And the trends that caused the ice to melt are reversing, and that the ice should start to increase.
What will believers use next to scare us little people?
2007-12-13 00:24:10 · answer #1 · answered by Dr Jello 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Check out todays A.P. News report on the RAPID melting of Artic ice. It's on Yahoo news. All the nonsense that the 'Deniers' spew is in the toilet! There is NOTHING 'good' about global climate change due to A.G.W.! Every year here in Washington state, we get a 100 year storm,stronger than the last one. This year we got hit by what the news called the "1,000 year storm" ! How many 100 or 1,000 year storms do we have to get before people wise up?
2007-12-13 10:03:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Sure, it would be a good effect.
The problem is that the bad effects of this will cost us huge sums of money, completely dominating any good effects. Details here:
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL052735320070407
http://www.ipcc.ch/SPM6avr07.pdf
The point is that the economic effects of coastal flooding and damage to agriculture will be severe. That could easily drive the world into an economic depression that would make the 1930s look like good times.
There may be little international commerce to use the passage.
Not to mention, wars.
"Climate Change Poses Serious Threat to U.S. National Security"
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-16-2007/0004565995&EDATE=
The bottom line is that any good effects are insignificant compared to the bad ones.
2007-12-13 10:53:08 · answer #3 · answered by Bob 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
And for polar bears?
- give ferry boats to them ?
- build bridges ?
Sorry for this stupid example but the Northwest passage will be a growing problem for migratory path of species.
2007-12-13 08:12:06 · answer #4 · answered by NLBNLB 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
summers and winters will get warmer
2007-12-13 08:05:26 · answer #5 · answered by James Crawley Maximus Meridius 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋