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First cruise ship navigating the Northwest Passage—The climate is warming up. There is no question.
http://news.umanitoba.ca/first-cruise-ship-navigating-the-northwest-passage/[font face=Serif][font size=5]First cruise ship navigating the Northwest Passage[/font]
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[font size=3]August 25, 2016 — As you are reading this, a cruise ship is navigating the Northwest Passage. If the significance of that has not sunk in yet, this is one more part of the proof that global warming is real.
The cruise liner Crystal Serenity is currently about a quarter of the way through a month-long voyage from Anchorage, Alaska, to New York City, traversing the famed Northwest Passage. The cost is about $22,000 (US) per person and the ship can accommodate about 1,000 guests with a crew of more than 600. It is accompanied by the RRS Ernest Shackleton, a British icebreaker and supply ship.
“A ship this large has never gone through the Northwest Passage,” says David Barber, Canada Research Chair in Arctic System Science and Associate Dean (Research), in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources. “Ten years ago, such a thing would not have been possible.”
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While icebreakers have often made the trip through the icy channel, this is the first time a large commercial cruise ship has made the voyage. The Northwest Passage was once thought to be impassable because it had been frozen over, but during the past decades, more and more open water has made it theoretically navigable by huge floating cities such as the Crystal Serenity. This single event effectively opens Canada’s North to a new kind of tourism and a different set of issues.
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[font size=4]'The climate is warming up. There is no question.'[/font]
[font size=3]August 25, 2016 — As you are reading this, a cruise ship is navigating the Northwest Passage. If the significance of that has not sunk in yet, this is one more part of the proof that global warming is real.
The cruise liner Crystal Serenity is currently about a quarter of the way through a month-long voyage from Anchorage, Alaska, to New York City, traversing the famed Northwest Passage. The cost is about $22,000 (US) per person and the ship can accommodate about 1,000 guests with a crew of more than 600. It is accompanied by the RRS Ernest Shackleton, a British icebreaker and supply ship.
“A ship this large has never gone through the Northwest Passage,” says David Barber, Canada Research Chair in Arctic System Science and Associate Dean (Research), in the Clayton H. Riddell Faculty of Environment, Earth, and Resources. “Ten years ago, such a thing would not have been possible.”
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While icebreakers have often made the trip through the icy channel, this is the first time a large commercial cruise ship has made the voyage. The Northwest Passage was once thought to be impassable because it had been frozen over, but during the past decades, more and more open water has made it theoretically navigable by huge floating cities such as the Crystal Serenity. This single event effectively opens Canada’s North to a new kind of tourism and a different set of issues.
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