The impending enrichment of Arctic countries would not compensate for the costs of runaway Arctic warming.
In total, the arctic warming is an unprecedented trend, according to Dr Hinzman.
So those greens who have set their hopes on the eco-attuned Inuit or Scandinavians taking a stand against Arctic warming are likely to be disappointed.
As our special report shows in detail, the Arctic is warming roughly twice as fast as the rest of the planet.
It is a spectacular performance that is unfortunately indicative of a bigger problem: the Arctic is warming up, the ice is melting and glaciers are receding.
As a symptom of global warming, moreover, the warming Arctic is indivisible from the manifold costs it will entail.
The committee also highlighted the irony that drilling was eased because the Arctic was already warming much faster than anywhere else on the planet.
They were creamy-white and unblemished, the fruit of a warming Arctic.
Other Icelandic authorities believe the intent is to gain a foothold for China for future deepwater drilling in the Arctic as global warming opens up the northern climes.
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Warming Arctic seas and a marked decline in sea ice during the summer months made it likely, they concluded, that numbers would fall by one third within three generations (45 years).
According to a recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme, reducing black carbon and ozone in the lower part of the atmosphere, especially in the Arctic countries of America, Canada, Russia and Scandinavia, could cut warming in the Arctic by two-thirds over the next three decades.
The polar bear, for instance, is now successfully promoting the danger to Arctic wildlife posed by global warming.
The government has endorsed the committee's concern over the pace of warming in the Arctic, but rejected many of its specific suggestions.
According to a recent paper by Francis and Vavrus in Geophysical Research Letters, the preferential warming of the Arctic, with a concomitant decline in late-summer sea ice, results in a more meandering jet stream, which is why Sandy shifted westward, rather than being shoved out to sea by the normally strong westerlies associated with the jet.
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This would - in turn - exacerbate warming, across the Arctic and the rest of the world.
The Arctic is especially prone to global warming because of the dangers of the so-called "feedback loop" caused by melting ice.
Furthermore, the pattern of warming globally doesn't resemble the pattern of urbanisation, with the greatest warming seen in the Arctic and northern high latitudes.
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Many climate scientists say their biggest fear is that warming could melt the Arctic permafrost which stretches for thousands of miles across Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.
Global warming is making the Arctic much more accessible to shipping.
Apparently, the decisive argument will be that only transnational bureaucrats will be able to contend with the implications of the melting Arctic ice caps induced by global warming.
Using ever fancier technologies, the oil business is drilling in deeper waters, more difficult terrain and even in the Arctic (which, as global warming melts the polar ice cap, will perversely become the next great prize in oil).
The current warming being experienced in the Arctic means the conditions needed to rebuild the shelves simply does not exist.
Dr. CORELL: Over this century, we're likely to see warming in parts of the Arctic that goes as much as 12 to 15 degrees warmer.
Skeptics point out that global warming is expected to warm Arctic air masses more than Gulf of Mexico air masses, which will therefore diminish the contrast between the two air masses and reduce the strength and likelihood of tornadoes.
In reality, global warming is likely to benefit most Arctic and subarctic species.
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The U.S. says that shrinking Arctic ice habitat, a product of a warming climate, puts polar bear populations in a precarious position.
The best hope lies in trying to identify the broader changes under way - for example with the retreat of the Arctic sea-ice or the cycle of warming in the Pacific Ocean with El Nino and La Nina.
Why should the melting Arctic, a product of man-made global warming, be any different?
Melting ice, especially in Greenland and the Arctic, is also thought to contribute to global warming, Zwally said.
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