Friday, November 6, 2009

Sailing the Northwest Passage

You can follow a 13 month sailing voyage around the Americas aboard the "Ocean Watch," a 64-foot steel cutter-rigged sloop. Their mission is to build awareness about ocean health on an international scale. It has been estimated that in about 30 years there may be ice-free summers in the Arctic waters, enabling shortened passage between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

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GREENLAND - Will probably be the focus of near term sea level rise

Greenland is almost all covered by a very thick glacial ice cap. If all of Greenland's ice either melted or slid into the oceans, sea le...