a rampant global warming climate change. yeah i mean especially the northwest passage and the barents sea the year to year ice is decreased significantly. i've read studies of all university in canada had a study earlier this year that surveyed one hundred twenty five global shipping companies only eleven of those companies said that they had any interest in really trying to use the arctic region for global shipping lanes just because the insurance is so high it's very expensive to try to strengthen the whole ship so far shipping goes we're still a ways off a lot more else ice is enough to melt before before that happens as far as oil exploration there's an estimated ninety billion barrels of oil. in the arctic people are soon no one really knows for sure. and that is that's going to be hard as well to try to start to extract just because there's no real search and rescue capability in the arctic new russia can the united states nor the arctic eight countries have any real ability to...