McLaughlin Writers Goup, LLC.
  • Home
  • Profile
  • Services
  • Work
    • Magazines & Organizations
  • Contact
  • Blog

Ice And Irony

1/15/2014

3 Comments

 
Last month, climate scientists, media and 'green' tourists, ironically, were lodged in an ice jam in Antarctica while hoping to observe the effects of global warming on the South Pole. Meanwhile up north in the Arctic Circle, military scientists view the diminishing ice pack as fact. But the Navy in a soon-to-be-published Strategy Paper makes no public comment as to why climate change is happening. It don't appear to be wringing its hands in doom and angst, either, or laying blame on industrial development by humans. Instead the Navy and Coast Guard seems to be rolling up their sleeves to deal with the situation.

Climate change has had a visible and direct impact on the Arctic region, the Navy concludes in the paper, as noted in a  Wall Street Journal report (January 13, 2014).  "The inevitable opening of the Arctic will essentially create a new coast on America's north," says Admiral Jonathan Greenert.

The expanding navigable area of the Arctic Ocean will open up shipping lanes for faster transport of goods and commodities between China and Europe. More open seas will also give energy companies greater access to offshore oil and gas in regions controlled by the U.S., reports the WSJ. Military officials estimate the value of these activities to be $1 trillion.

When the Navy's Strategy Paper is released (in the next couple of weeks), it will be nice to read a report about global warming that doesn't lead with a homage to the modeling efforts of scientists and to the consensus of environmentalists and politicians that humans are responsible for the situation. It looks like this paper will provide a strategy for doing something, rather than to stop doing something. Subliminally the message might be about opportunity versus liability. Ironically, the easier availability of additional fossil fuels in the Artic may make coping with  problems said to be caused by fossil fuels easier.  










3 Comments
write my paper link
4/18/2016 08:26:38 am

"It don't appear to be wringing its hands in doom and angst, either, or laying blame on industrial development by humans. Instead the Navy and Coast Guard seems to be rolling up their sleeves to deal with the situation" - rather interesting.
"The inevitable opening of the Arctic will essentially create a new coast on America's north," but doesn't it mean that melting ice will increase the water level and it will happen something reverse?

Reply
essay help link
8/22/2016 10:51:06 pm

You've reminded me of the Freud's works. You know, one of the most famous of them is about humor and unconscious.

Reply
Common Grammar Mistakes link
4/12/2018 09:31:56 am

now much has become clear to me, thank you for clarifying the situation, for me there were different facts that I did not know before

Reply



Leave a Reply.

    McLaughlin

    Scientific, Technical, Engineering, Agricultural
    Communications

    Archives

    January 2014
    October 2012
    January 2012
    December 2011
    March 2011
    February 2011
    January 2011
    December 2010
    November 2010

    Categories

    All
    Agriculture
    Communications

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.