The mysterious Northeast Passage is opening

[Taro Toporific]

Fast boat to China (& Japan)...The mysterious "Northeast passage" to Japan is opening.
Arctic Ice Shrinking Due to Global Warming - Report
NORWAY: August 14, 2003 / PlanetArk.org
OSLO - Global warming will melt most of the Arctic icecap in summertime by the end of the century, a report showed yesterday... Northern Sea passage could save shippers about 10 days on a trip from Japan to Europe compared to traveling through the Suez Canal.

[Steve Bildermann]

Visit the Artic before the Artic visits you!

[GargoyleTS]

C'mon now! I intend to live forever and this becomes (in light of my delusion) a real problem with time to solve. I just need some gov't funding to find places of extreme stability near the poles and construct multi-mile high towers with tesla coils on them and generate significant electricital arcs along them to create ozone at a sufficient altitude to repair the hole. This leaves us with the problem of possibly being in the middle of an Ice Age and not knowing it due to the current global warming, but like those in Japan currently know: Its easier to warm up than to cool off. And a road across mile-thick ice to the mainland would help shipping too...

[Buraku]

The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC, led by President Yasuhiro Kato) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, led by President Keiji Tachikawa) cooperatively analyzed oceanic and atmospheric observation data and sea ice data acquired by satellites

..and found that the sea ice area in the Arctic Ocean has been decreasing at a much faster pace than expected compared to the previous worst record in the summer of 2005. After satellite observations started in 1978, the observed area shrunk to its lowest level on August 15, 2007. Ice melting normally continues until mid September, thus further shrinkage of the sea ice area is expected.