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>Arctic turning into the next shipping route I always wonder how realistic is this? I assume we dont need special vessel for this shipping lane and we can some

• throw0101d 2y ago
  > I assume we dont need special vessel for this shipping lane and we can somehow always clear all the ice before us. With climate change there are longer and longer times of the year when there is no ice. And when it does reform it is often not as thick as before, so less robust ships may be needed.
• netsharc 2y ago
  We've been adjusting the temperature there so ice won't be a problem soon...
  • GoldenMonkey 2y ago
    And yet, there is 26% more extent area with ice than in 2012. https://x.com/TonyClimate/status/1872304912115408920 https://x.com/TonyClimate/status/1872304912115408920
    • lostlogin 2y ago
      Cherry picking a data point is misleading. Rather than compare a record low year, why not look at a trend? https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indicators-arctic-sea-ice https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
    • insane_dreamer 2y ago
      I can take any two data points to prove any point I want. That's not how statistics work. The Arctic is expected to be ice free by 2027. That is what matters when it comes to shipping. https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/12/04/an-ice-free-arctic-could-happen-by-summer-2027-what-it-means-for-weather-shipping-and-pola https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/12/04/an-ice-free-arctic...
      • arandomusername 2y ago
        No it's not. Literally from the study that the article was based on: > the earliest ice-free conditions (the first single occurrence of an ice-free Arctic) *could* occur in 2020–2030s under all emission trajectories and are *likely* to occur by 2050