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We once predicted that World War III would be fought over the moon, but now it looks like it will fought over the newly-opened (thanks to glacier melt) passage in the Arctic.

The Northeast Passage from Russia to Asia is a shortcut from the traditional route through Europe, the Suez Canal and around India. It’s a great opportunity for Russia, which wants to sell more oil and gas to energy-hungry china. But Canada is already making a rival claim to the territory.
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Instead of cooling down – New research indicates that Arctic temperatures in the 1990s reached their warmest level of any decade in at least 2,000 years. In fact, the Arctic would be COOLING right now if it wasn’t for the greenhouse gas emissions that are overpowering natural climate patterns, such as reduction in sunspots.

When scientists used their computers to reconstruct summer temperatures across the Arctic over the last 2,000 years, decade by decade, they found that thousands of years of gradual Arctic cooling, related to natural changes in earth’s orbit, would continue today if not for emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.
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Satellite data reveal that the Arctic is losing its old, thick ice faster than ever before?in modern times, anyway. This has continued even though the summer is over. Older ice floes are thicker and contain less salt, so they usually survive the summer better than the more newly-formed ice. The shrinking of Arctic ice has global implications, since ice reflects heat back into the atmosphere, helping to keep global warming at bay.
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Parts of the arctic are experiencing an incredible heat wave, with temperatures reaching above 72 degrees?the same as current weather conditions in parts of California!

In the Oct. 3 edition of the Independent, Steve Connor quotes researcher Scott Lamoureux as saying, “The landscape was being torn to pieces, literally before our eyes.”

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