This is exciting news though I never dreamed I'd live to see it. Global warming, it seems, has opened the fabled North-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I have an excellent account of the search for the North-west passage in Tudor times, in the Penguin Books' edition of Richard Hakluyt's "Voyages and Discoveries". I believe it is currently out of print but well worth reading if you can find a copy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6995999.stm


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Man, I almost cried yesterday when I read that. So many explorers had lost their lives either looking for that Passage or trying to rescue the iced-in earlier expeditions. Whole crews of brave men had died a horrible death there from hunger and scurvy - and now suddenly the whole thing just thaws out all by itself...

I guess they all should've just waited another couple hundred years, huh. What an ironic world, this is better than anything Hollywood can come up with.

Cheers,
Sol

this further proves to me that all of these predictions that scientists are making about when global warming will hit us the hardest are completely off. We could have a massive glacier collapse into the sea at any given moment and no one can predict it...

This also makes me wonder if it really a man-made problem, but rather a cycle. I've heard it mentioned before.

Eric wrote:

This also makes me wonder if it really a man-made problem, but rather a cycle.

Can't it be both?


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I guess we can't rule out both

I think the evidence points to it being both.

I would love to learn more about it. And with that, I believe i will