High risk investments and great for future archeology.
"Climate change is melting the glaciers more rapidly than scientists and climate models predicted. If the melting continues at this rate, Arctic waters could be ice-free by 2020."
The Antarctic glaciers have been in a melt phase for the past 600 years. The Arctic has also warmed (Vikings colonized a forest covered Greenland for several hundred years. grew crops and raised sheep) and it refroze up until recently. This should tell most of us who haven't invested our capital or our souls in either side of the climate change debate - that climate change has always been an on going process and our ability to sort our own affects from natural cycles is sadly inadequate - regarding where the climate might be heading and when. That said, I think it's safe to say that with in a few decades we will find significant investments in Arctic resource exploitation - frozen solid and practically inaccessible again. In the mean time perhaps we should focus on the absolute and main cause of anthropogenic climate affects - too many humans compared to the planetary resources available. What? Are we always going to rely on war, disease and famine to manage our species, or are we finally intelligent enough to accept the responsibility and accomplish population management in a positive and reasonable way in the generations to come?
