You don't need to believe in cargo freighter ships or climate change but that's because Nature doesn't care what you believe. The Arctic ice has receded tremendously and cargo ships can navigate the Northwest Passage, the sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans which traverses between North America and the Arctic. The only question now is how to navigate the Northwest Passage in the safest way. (Science Daily: Safe navigation through the Northwest Passage)
There are multiple routes through the Northwest Passage and multiple reasons to find the best one. Shipping this way saves an enormous number of sea miles so that saves shipping companies big bucks and that's the only variable that lot needs while some of you may think sea cruise because you want to see it.
- Map from WIKI: Northwest Passage
As the polar ice caps are melting, the Northwest Passage is becoming more navigable -- its economic use is within reach. Even the federal government of Germany has the topic on the agenda. "For a country dependent on exports, such as Germany, shorter sea routes are of great importance," says Dr. Wolfgang Koch, Head of Sensor Data and Information Fusion at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE. "Compared to the route between East Asia and Europe via the Suez Canal, the route via the Northwest Passage is about 5,000 nautical miles shorter, which means enormous savings for ship owners," says Koch. This route has been too dangerous, though: there is no reliable information about it.
- Science Daily
We could argue about climate change being false but that would mean ships really aren't making it through the Northwest Passage because it's still frozen over with ice. If either of those things are true, this is just a meeting for Mission Impossible and none of this ever happened anyway. Opting for Mission Impossible won't be any more interesting than this article since Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015) may be the most boring action movie I have ever seen.
Rebecca Ferguson, the only saving grace from Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
See, I'm tellin' you. There you were thinking I couldn't find a way to wangle a Hot Babe into an article about climate change but there she is. Let's run her for President so she can save this rogue nation ... and there you have the gratuitous political shot as well.
For centuries explorers sought a navigable passage as a possible trade route. An ice-bound northern route was discovered in 1850 by the Irish explorer Robert McClure, however it was through a more southerly opening in an area explored by the Scotsman John Rae in 1854 that Norwegian Roald Amundsen made the first complete passage in 1903–1906. Until 2009, the Arctic pack ice prevented regular marine shipping throughout most of the year. Arctic sea ice decline has rendered the waterways more navigable.
- WIKI
It's barely one hundred years since any kind of a ship made it across the Northwest Passage and it hasn't even been ten years that really large ships can do it so there's naturally quite a bit to be learned about the best route but the really stunning aspect is how fast this came. We really do not have anything to add to that since we have no idea how fast it's supposed to come, when it comes, but that seems bloody fast for a major transition of the planet.
We're not going to get crazy sci fi on you and predict the oceans will boil by Tuesday but the recession of the ice is unmistakeable and large scale shipping enterprises may not exactly counting on it but they're definitely putting some serious dollars into finding how to take advantage of it.
There are multiple routes through the Northwest Passage and multiple reasons to find the best one. Shipping this way saves an enormous number of sea miles so that saves shipping companies big bucks and that's the only variable that lot needs while some of you may think sea cruise because you want to see it.
- Map from WIKI: Northwest Passage
As the polar ice caps are melting, the Northwest Passage is becoming more navigable -- its economic use is within reach. Even the federal government of Germany has the topic on the agenda. "For a country dependent on exports, such as Germany, shorter sea routes are of great importance," says Dr. Wolfgang Koch, Head of Sensor Data and Information Fusion at the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE. "Compared to the route between East Asia and Europe via the Suez Canal, the route via the Northwest Passage is about 5,000 nautical miles shorter, which means enormous savings for ship owners," says Koch. This route has been too dangerous, though: there is no reliable information about it.
- Science Daily
We could argue about climate change being false but that would mean ships really aren't making it through the Northwest Passage because it's still frozen over with ice. If either of those things are true, this is just a meeting for Mission Impossible and none of this ever happened anyway. Opting for Mission Impossible won't be any more interesting than this article since Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015) may be the most boring action movie I have ever seen.
Rebecca Ferguson, the only saving grace from Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
See, I'm tellin' you. There you were thinking I couldn't find a way to wangle a Hot Babe into an article about climate change but there she is. Let's run her for President so she can save this rogue nation ... and there you have the gratuitous political shot as well.
For centuries explorers sought a navigable passage as a possible trade route. An ice-bound northern route was discovered in 1850 by the Irish explorer Robert McClure, however it was through a more southerly opening in an area explored by the Scotsman John Rae in 1854 that Norwegian Roald Amundsen made the first complete passage in 1903–1906. Until 2009, the Arctic pack ice prevented regular marine shipping throughout most of the year. Arctic sea ice decline has rendered the waterways more navigable.
- WIKI
It's barely one hundred years since any kind of a ship made it across the Northwest Passage and it hasn't even been ten years that really large ships can do it so there's naturally quite a bit to be learned about the best route but the really stunning aspect is how fast this came. We really do not have anything to add to that since we have no idea how fast it's supposed to come, when it comes, but that seems bloody fast for a major transition of the planet.
We're not going to get crazy sci fi on you and predict the oceans will boil by Tuesday but the recession of the ice is unmistakeable and large scale shipping enterprises may not exactly counting on it but they're definitely putting some serious dollars into finding how to take advantage of it.
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