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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.
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SolAris
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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:00 pm
Oracle
Joined: Tue May 16, 2006 12:00 am Posts: 769 Location: The Med
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
Eric
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:21 am
Pyramid Level III
Joined: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:00 am Posts: 257
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.
PhantomQueen
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:25 am
Prodigy
Joined: Tue Dec 30, 2003 1:00 am Posts: 1195 Location: CA
Eric wrote:
This also makes me wonder if it really a man-made problem, but rather a cycle.
Can't it be both?
_________________ If you don't like what's going down
you need to change something round
and what you can't change you've got to change the way you thought about - The Streets
Eric
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:00 pm
Pyramid Level III
Joined: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:00 am Posts: 257
I guess we can't rule out both
Poppy
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 6:47 pm
Numen
Joined: Mon May 22, 2006 12:00 am Posts: 1750 Location: Massachusetts
I think the evidence points to it being both.
Eric
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2007 10:16 pm
Pyramid Level III
Joined: Sun Aug 27, 2006 12:00 am Posts: 257
I would love to learn more about it. And with that, I believe i will
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