I'm not much for global warming debates, but I did find this sentence from the article particularly ironic: "If it happens, it raises the prospect of the Arcti

I'm not much for global warming debates, but I did find this sentence from the article particularly ironic: "If it happens, it raises the prospect of the Arctic nations being able to exploit the valuable oil and mineral deposits below these a bed which have until now been impossible to extract because of the thick sea ice above."