{"id":606,"date":"2007-09-17T08:25:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-17T15:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/global-warming-arctic-passage\/"},"modified":"2007-09-17T08:25:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-17T15:25:39","slug":"global-warming-arctic-passage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/17\/global-warming-arctic-passage\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Warming &#038; Arctic Passage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\nOverhead polar view of Arctic Passage, now navigable<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/pix\/arctic_passage.jpg\" alt=\"Polar view of arctic passage\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nVia <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070915\/sc_nm\/arctic_passage_dc_4\" target=\"_blank\" >Yahoo News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nLONDON (Reuters) &#8211; The Arctic&#8217;s Northwest Passage has opened up fully because of melting sea ice, clearing a long-sought but historically impassable route between Europe and Asia, the European Space Agency said.<\/p>\n<p>Sea ice has shrunk in the Arctic to its lowest level since satellite measurements began 30 years ago, ESA said, showing images of the now &#8220;fully navigable&#8221; route between the Atlantic and the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>A shipping route through the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic has been touted as a possible cheaper option to the Panama Canal for many shippers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have seen the ice-covered area drop to just around 3 million square km,&#8221; said Leif Toudal Pedersen of the Danish National Space Centre, describing the drop in the Arctic sea ice as &#8220;extreme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The figure was about 1 million sq km (386,870 sq miles) less than previous lows in 2005 and 2006, Pedersen added.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070915\/sc_nm\/arctic_passage_dc_4\" target=\"_blank\" >Read more&#8230;<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><sarcasm>Guess there had to be some silver lining to Global Warming&#8230;<\/sarcasm><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overhead polar view of Arctic Passage, now navigable Via Yahoo News: LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; The Arctic&#8217;s Northwest Passage has opened up fully because of melting sea ice, clearing a long-sought but historically impassable route between Europe and Asia, the European Space Agency said. Sea ice has shrunk in the Arctic to its lowest level since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}