PSA is FINISHED! Ships got a clear new alterenative route

[TemaseX]

NEVER BEFORE in globe's natural history and for the 1st time, the Arctic Sea is becoming a BRAND NEW SHORT-CUT SHIPPING ROUTE as ice melts away. They are real time and fuel & cost savers for shipping, fleets of shipment new NEED NOT sail South around Asian-Euro continent (passing Singapore port) any longer, because there is a great convenient short-cut in the NORTH.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090707...jY29yZGlvbl9zY2llbmNlBHNsawNzYXRlbGxpdGVzaG8-


Satellite shows big thinning of old Arctic sea ice
AP


By SETH BORENSTEIN, AP Science Writer Seth Borenstein, Ap Science Writer – 2 hrs 34 mins ago

WASHINGTON – New NASA satellite measurements show that sea ice in the Arctic is more than just shrinking in area, it is dramatically thinning.

The volume of older crucial sea ice in the Arctic has shrunk by 57 percent from the winter of 2004 to 2008. That's losing more volume of ice than water in Lake Michigan.

NASA scientist Jay Zwally said global warming is to blame. He said rapidly shrinking sea ice in the Arctic warms the rest of the globe indirectly. Older ice is more important in the Arctic because it is thicker, surviving the heat of summer and building over time.

 

[shelltox]

If the artic and the antartic ice melts, then singapore and all those low lying countries are finito. Don't be too happy about it

 

[wikiphile]

dun be a cock can? Theres still a lot of pack ice up there and not all ships are ice class vessels or fitted with ice breaker capable of extricating itself out when stuck in a sea of dense ice.

 

[flkyflky]

dun be a cock can? Theres still a lot of pack ice up there and not all ships are ice class vessels or fitted with ice breaker capable of extricating itself out when stuck in a sea of dense ice.

No need any more. Small re-fitting and change of equipment for entire fleet is sufficient to sail arctic routes. It is becoming easier and easier as ice decreases rapidly. It used to be impossible without ice-breakers, very unsafe and slow. But it is relatively easy now with some iceberg risks. Satellite technology helps to guide the fleets cost effectively and efficiently.