Doesn’t seem like global warming is just another trade opportunity:
A gas tanker & icebreaker made it from China to Yamal in the 1st transit of the Northern Sea Route in February, "confirming that year-round safe navigation is possible," Russia says. There's no multi-year ice left there. @BarentsNews https://t.co/57fCekHYZL pic.twitter.com/PgO45fjN9V
— Alec Luhn (@AlecLuhn) February 21, 2021
It’s in the financial interests of the oil companies to allow the North and South polar ice caps to melt in order to open new shipping lanes.
Just like it was in the financial interest of the Bush family to buy glaciers in South America to sell as drinking water as they melted.
The oligarchs are devious and cruel masters.
Which explains why it’s warmer in Yukon right now than the lower 48.