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Russia gears up to dominate a thawing Arctic April 20, 2017 6:12 am hank

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4421072/Russia-unveils-new-Arctic-military-base.html

As this article, and its remarkable pictures, show, Putin not only is investing heavily in the exploitation of newly accessible (due to AGW) Arctic resources, he is also establishing a strong military presence in the area to consolidate Russian dominance in the region.

Petrochemical development will be partially financed and technologically supported by his partnership with Exxon (negotiated with US Secretary of State Tillotson). Here is the other side of the coin.

Low oil prices and Western sanctions imposed over Moscow’s actions in Ukraine mean new offshore Arctic projects have for now been mothballed, but the Kremlin is playing a longer game.
It is building three nuclear icebreakers, including the world’s largest, to bolster its fleet of around 40 breakers, six of which are nuclear. No other country has a nuclear breaker fleet, used to clear channels for military and civilian ships.
Russia’s Northern Fleet, based near Murmansk in the Kola Bay’s icy waters, is also due to get its own icebreaker, its first, and two ice-capable corvettes armed with cruise missiles.

President Obama tried to secure funding for a state-of-the-art icebreaker, but it was shut down by a Republican-dominated Congress. Why do we need icebreakers if the polar ice is melting?
Because it isn’t all going to melt away overnight. As the polar ice diminishes, the navigation season in the Arctic will last longer, and extend further, and Arctic development will slowly expand into marginal, but increasingly accessible areas.

The Russians obviously understand this. We don’t.

  • Of course if we did have a new ice breaker... by RL 2017-04-20 15:06:11
    • Go find a global map. by TB 2017-04-20 13:51:22
      • Geography and Geology by podrock 2017-04-21 17:19:40
        • So far, all our discussions here have been about sea ice vanishing, and its effect on global weather in the temperate zones. by hank 2017-04-21 18:28:13
          • It has already started.... by podrock 2017-04-21 18:48:08
        • I doan know nuttin'' 'bout no mappin'. by hank 2017-04-20 18:51:08
          • I wasn't trying to make this political. by TB 2017-04-20 21:22:42
            • Maybe I'm just overly sensitive... by hank 2017-04-20 22:05:40
              • You're in an odd environment for someone sensitive about snark and hostility. by TB 2017-04-21 09:17:49
                • I don't think hank gets much by the way of either snark or hostility here by mcfly 2017-04-21 10:55:12
              • It really is a Knee-jerk response for you, isn't it? by RL 2017-04-20 22:03:15
              • It must be hard for TB... by RL 2017-04-20 19:25:15
              • Since you say global warming is just a hoax perpetrated by liberal scientists, perhaps you should be lecturing Russia on their folly... by RL 2017-04-20 14:20:26
                • Keep your lectures to yourself, tb by mcfly 2017-04-20 14:19:15
                  • Since Trump is a Russian puppet, And TB is Trump's puppet, he has to defend anything that benefits the Russians... by RL 2017-04-20 14:27:52

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