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Northeast Passage: here we come

The first time?More proof facts have no place in the modern anti-science era.For those interested start with Swedish steamship Vega (1878).I think this will be the first commercial cargo ships to go through. In the past, it has only been for exploration and way to dangerous and costly for commercial...

Tags: Northeast Passage, Northwest Passage, Vega

Discussion threads 2009-09-11

The birth of a Northwest Passage: exploration and exploitation

Well, the race for the control of the Arctic seems to be on. Russia, Norway, Denmark, Canada. Each has its eye on certain sections of the north polar region, and the thus control of the presumed oil and other resourcers under the sea bed. Canada is the...

Tags: Russia, Canada, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-10

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East Anglia: anger and aggro

One must live through it in order to fully understand itOnly in this case some will have to face huge collateral damage. Fortunately those who will suffer the most are living in already hard hit areas so they are quite used to a life of pain and suffering and as...

Tags: E-mail, East Anglia

Discussion threads 2009-11-26

Making money off global warming

No old ice blocking the Northwest Passage. by Harry Fuller

Tags: Ice, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-11-01

U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'

Those are some of the words from the U.N. Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Geneva this morning. He was at a World Climate Conference, having just paid a personal visit to to the Arctic where melt is happenin'. Ban says the Arctuic is warming faster than anywhere else...

Tags: Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-03

Cooking the books on global warming. Withholding evidence.

Photos dating back through the past few years reveal starkly how the ice sheets are melting in the Arctic. Progressively the summer ice cover is retreating in the Arctic, meaning each winter restores less and less ice. These photos were taken by American military spy tech so that...

Tags: Global Warming, Government Website, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-26

International Polar Year: data on climate change

The results are now becoming clear from the International Polar Year IPY: earlier estimates of climate change were too mild. Change is happening faster than the IPCC expected. We all know the once mythical Northwest Passage now exists, in summer you can take your ship from Europe across...

Tags: Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-25

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?

Climate change driven IT spend: are we being hoodwinked?Green Y2KDennis, needed questions...I asked a similar question couple of weeks ago - are we headed towards a green Y2K?http://dealarchitect.typepad.com/deal_architect/2009/05/the-green-y2k.htmlI was at Gartner then and we were warning the world about Y2K. The bigger the total remediation cost we projected the more...

Tags: Y2K, global warming, Climate Change, IT SPEND, information technology, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-06-08

Polar meltdown both north and south

Arctic Ice Cover maps. Courtesy University of Washington/NOAA. That's the March ice cover on the left, September on the right. The top pair show current conditions, the bottom maps show thirty year model: ice free summers. The U.S. Geological Survey has compiled data confirming...

Tags: Earth, Meltdown, Glacier, Sea Level, Ice Sheet, Sea Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-04-04

Collision course for American-owned car makers

Collision course for American-owned car makersDo not blame the auto companies, blame the UAWhow can anyone afford to make a sale, having to raise the price of an auto beyond the reach of many in the public, because UAWers are receiving salaries of 60,000 dollars a year plus full benefits...

Tags: Manufacturing, car, auto company, automobile company

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Polar warming, hot time in the Arctic Ocean

This map of Greenland at end of last year, courtesy NASA. This may the first time in history that the North Pole is open water, not ice. We've blogged about the disappearing ice cap on Greenland, and the opening of the northwest passage between...

Tags: Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-06-26

Arctic nations agree to talk, not fight, over new shipping lanes

Courtesy USGS and NOAA. Global warming is opening the once mythical Northwest Passage and ships are expected to be able to move from the Atlantic to the Pacific by going past Greenland,Canada and Alaska. Five nations direclty affected by this sea-change are agreeing to abide...

Tags: Greenland, NOAA, Nation, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Greenland is coming up in the world

Research using GPS and computer analysis of data over several years shows that Greenland is rising. As the ice cover on that mega-island gets less, and thus lighter in weight, the land mass beneath is increasing its elevation. In the five years ending in...

Tags: Greenland, Corporate Communications, GPS, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-11-15

Greenland becoming a green land

This picture is from NASA/JPL. What do you see here? You see stresams of water on the surface of a melting Greenland ice sheet. The streams converge on a moulin which is a shaft or tubular path down which the water pours until it...

Tags: Greenland, Ice, United States Coast Guard, Ice Sheet, Web Site Development, Blogging, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-25

Where there's oil there's gonna be action

Now that climate change has brought about the possibility of new oil fields in the Arctic, President George W. Bush is in favor of action. Not longer is it enough to talk climate change, or point to the need for more study. Now, we gotta act. Pronto....

Tags: Treaty, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-05

High tech shows low ice in Arctic

The two images above show how much ice has vanished from Greenland & northern Canada in past two years. The left hand shows this summer's end. The one on the right is from 2005. Images based on satellite images and computer mapping, provided by The...

Tags: Ice, Satellite, Computer, Productivity, Network Technology, Networking, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-10-01

New ice, old ice and no ice

That picture is one recently released by NASA of the now-open-for-shipping Northwest Passage across the Arctic. On October 1 you'll be seeing more pictures like this when the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center NSIDC comes out with its annual report on the summer...

Tags: Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-27

OpenOffice 2.3 and 3.0 and IBM Symphony Improve Interop With Office

OpenOffice 2.3 and 3.0 and IBM Symphony Improve Interop With OfficeSure, they'll adopt Open Source. Just not all at once.[b][i]Customers won't adopt any open source desktop — whether it is backed by Sun, Novell, Red Hat or IBM — if it doesn't offer seamless compatibility with Microsoft Office.[/i][/b]Sure...

Tags: IBM Corp., OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., seamless compatibility, OOXML

Discussion threads 2007-09-18

Global warming: is it over so soon?

That white-fringed arrow-shaped land mass is Greenland. A research paper is about to be published, and it's already causing an ice storm in the climate change world. Details of the paper are being combed over by science geeks, and the conclusion seems to be: this paper...

Tags: Ice, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-09-17

Less white is not really green

There may be another record coming this year, not most home runs in a career or home runs before the age of XXX. No, this one has to do with Arctic ice. Least amount in recorded history. According to researchers at the University of Colorado September...

Tags: Ice, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-08-16