The Arctic Frontier - Armed with Cooperation
... interests are consolidated. Melting Permafrost – Good, Bad or Ugly? As Mikhail Suslin of Sovcomflot stressed without Global Warming, the Northern Sea Route and Arctic development in general would not have been feasible as old-aged ice or permafrost would have stood as an impregnable obstacle. Since 2007 there have been some fears that the Arctic is not actually melting and as Vasiliy Bogoyavlenskiy said some in the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) agreed to this hypothesis. Still, most attendees of the RIAC conference quashed the idea and Vladimir Mikhailichenko of CNSRN said that the planet experiences a major tempreture shift every 150 years and we are now firmly in the warmer shift; thus a few years in the opposite direction are just a blip. We cannot ...