The Benefits Of Global Warming?

11 November 2002 - 12:00pm

Gobal warming may cause the polar ice cap to disappear for a few months during summer opening up shipping passages and cutting travel distances between Asia and Europe.

"A centuries-old dream of merchants and sailors, the fabled Northwest Passage across the ice-covered top of the world, may become open for commercial shipping as soon as five summers from now.Climate records show that the Arctic zone is warming much faster than midlatitude and tropical regions of our planet, causing the ice to melt at an accelerating rate. Some experts say the polar ice cap could disappear during the peak months of summer well before the end of this century."

Source: San Jose Mercury News, November 11, 2002
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