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| news.yahoo.com/s/afp -> search.yahoo.com/404handler?src=news&fr=404_news&ref=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fs%2Fafp Explore related concepts: Use the Escape key to return to the search box. Use the left arrow key to return to the search suggestions. Use the up and down arrow keys to select concepts related to your query. com - International News, Photos, Videos, Graphics, World AFP is a global news agency delivering fast, accurate, in-depth coverage of the events shaping our world from wars and conflicts to politics, sports, entertainment. References Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French news agency, the oldest one in the world, and one of the three largest with Associated Press and Reuters. Singapore News The latest World news headlines from Yahoo! WASHINGTON (AFP) - - US lawmakers voted to extend key parts of the Patriot Act law ... AFP Blog: Recent News of Note This blog contains assorted news and commentary on the fundraising profession and philanthropy gathered by the AFP Fundraising Resource Center. Submit Your Site SearchScan displays McAfee alerts optimal for the Yahoo! Search user and does not include all McAfee SiteAdvisor red ratings. |
| news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100301/sc_afp/chinaarcticbusinessenvironmentresearch_20100301114437 China eyeing perks of ice-free Arctic: study AFP/File - This 2007 photo shows the Esmark glacier on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, which has shrunk ... AP Mon Mar 1, 6:38 am ET STOCKHOLM (AFP) - China has started exploring how to reap economic and strategic benefits from the ice melting at the Arctic with global warming, a Stockholm research institute said Monday. Chinese officials have so far had been cautious in expressing interest in the region for fear of causing alarm among the five countries bordering the Arctic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said. "The prospect of the Arctic being navigable during summer months, leading to both shorter shipping routes and access to untapped energy resources, has impelled the Chinese government to allocate more resources to Arctic research," SIPRI researcher Linda Jakobson said. Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are already at odds over how to divvy up the Arctic riches, claiming overlapping parts of the region -- estimated to hold 90 billion untapped barrels of oil -- and wrangling over who should control the still frozen shipping routes. Most Europe-Asia trade now travels through the Suez Canal. Diverting this traffic through the famed Northwest Passage, which according to different predictions could become ice-free in the summer months any time between 2013 and 2060, would cut travel distance by 40 percent. "To date China has adopted a wait-and-see approach to Arctic developments, wary that active overtures would cause alarm in other countries due to China's size and status as a rising global power," Jakobson said. China has no Arctic coast and therefore no sovereign rights to underwater continental shelves, and is not a member of the Arctic Council which determines Arctic policies. "China's insistence on respect for sovereignty as a guiding principle of international relations deters it from questioning the territorial rights of Arctic states," according to SIPRI report "China prepares for an ice-free Arctic". Officially, the country's research remains largely focused on the environmental challenges of a melting Arctic. "However, in recent years Chinese officials and researchers have started to also assess the commercial, political and security implications for China of a seasonally ice-free Arctic region," Jakobson said. She points out that the country has one of the world's strongest polar scientific research capabilities and already owns the world's largest non-nuclear icebreaker. Last year Beijing approved the building of a new high-tech polar expedition research icebreaker, to set sail in 2013. "Despite its seemingly weak position, China can be expected to seek a role in determining the political framework and legal foundation for future Arctic activities," Jakobson said. Report Abuse Ok so you are all claiming that global warming is mass hysteria? Do you realize that 90% of the scientific community disagrees with you? And if you say that scientists are full of hooey consider what you are currently using to read this article with was made by science. Also were the microwave, airplane, television, radio, plastic, and the list goes on. At one point the world said the scientists making those items were full of hooey. Even if you don't believe in global warming how can you defend being so ecologically greedy? The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse. |
| www.csua.org/u/q83 -> news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100301/sc_afp/chinaarcticbusinessenvironmentresearch China eyeing perks of ice-free Arctic: study AFP/File - This 2007 photo shows the Esmark glacier on the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, which has shrunk ... AP Mon Mar 1, 6:38 am ET STOCKHOLM (AFP) - China has started exploring how to reap economic and strategic benefits from the ice melting at the Arctic with global warming, a Stockholm research institute said Monday. Chinese officials have so far had been cautious in expressing interest in the region for fear of causing alarm among the five countries bordering the Arctic, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said. "The prospect of the Arctic being navigable during summer months, leading to both shorter shipping routes and access to untapped energy resources, has impelled the Chinese government to allocate more resources to Arctic research," SIPRI researcher Linda Jakobson said. Canada, Denmark, Norway, Russia and the United States are already at odds over how to divvy up the Arctic riches, claiming overlapping parts of the region -- estimated to hold 90 billion untapped barrels of oil -- and wrangling over who should control the still frozen shipping routes. Most Europe-Asia trade now travels through the Suez Canal. Diverting this traffic through the famed Northwest Passage, which according to different predictions could become ice-free in the summer months any time between 2013 and 2060, would cut travel distance by 40 percent. "To date China has adopted a wait-and-see approach to Arctic developments, wary that active overtures would cause alarm in other countries due to China's size and status as a rising global power," Jakobson said. China has no Arctic coast and therefore no sovereign rights to underwater continental shelves, and is not a member of the Arctic Council which determines Arctic policies. "China's insistence on respect for sovereignty as a guiding principle of international relations deters it from questioning the territorial rights of Arctic states," according to SIPRI report "China prepares for an ice-free Arctic". Officially, the country's research remains largely focused on the environmental challenges of a melting Arctic. "However, in recent years Chinese officials and researchers have started to also assess the commercial, political and security implications for China of a seasonally ice-free Arctic region," Jakobson said. She points out that the country has one of the world's strongest polar scientific research capabilities and already owns the world's largest non-nuclear icebreaker. Last year Beijing approved the building of a new high-tech polar expedition research icebreaker, to set sail in 2013. "Despite its seemingly weak position, China can be expected to seek a role in determining the political framework and legal foundation for future Arctic activities," Jakobson said. when there's nothing left and were are dying because we can't breath, drink fresh water and have killed every animal for either sport "research" we can thank ourselves. There has been cooling and warming of the earth since the creation of the planet. There were no factories, autos, freon, CFC's during the last ice age so what is the excuse now. With all this talk about global warming it seems that no one wants to pay attention to the natural cycle of the planet. The simplest cycle is, Days and nights, months and years, winter, spring, summer, fall. Report Abuse If you fill a glass with water and ice - what happens when the ice melts? The water is displaced by the ice - from solid to liguid it is the same volume. Report Abuse how do you people (human caused global warming al gore crazies) know this is not God's plan for the earth. like the previous post says the planet has been warming and cooling since the begining. do your homework and don't buy into al gore's money making scheme. The information contained in the AFP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of Agence France Presse. |