Kenneth R. Rosen

Well, not only how vast it is, but if you take that perspective, looking from the top, you realize that the geographic lines of where a country ends and starts all meet at the top, right?

So there are almost these little slivers of shared ocean that exist in the North Pole.

So there's really a proximity there that isn't quite explained in the general populace.

That's exactly what's going on.

And I think there is this subtle admission by the Trump administration and governments the world over who are climate deniers to say that this is a region that is becoming more accessible because of climate change.

I mean, this is coming from a president who refuses to support sustainable energy projects.

As the climate in the north changes, it's warming four to five times faster than the rest of the planet.

And that's opening up waterways that had previously been icebound year round to say nothing of like an increased access to areas of land masses that were previously covered in ice or snow year round or just plain inaccessible by planes or boats.

But I think the real fascinating thing is this sort of feedback loop that is occurring.

Right.

So as the as the north heats more than the rest of the planet, it's thawing permafrost, which contains carbon and methane, and is then

inciting and even quicker heating of the planet, which some climate scientists believe that by 2030, there won't be summer sea ice in the Arctic Ocean.

This is like layer of gyrating ice that persists year round now at the top of our world.

So soon that'll be pretty navigable and easy for boats that generally wouldn't visit the north to go through.

It's hard to see even then, though.

I mean, to appreciate the connection

I remember a military official from the US explaining to me that it's a great place to just locate troops because you can fly anywhere to all these other adversarial nations or theaters of war in like seven hours.

You cross the North Pole and you're there really quickly.

You don't have to circumnavigate the globe to get there.

You just launch out of Alaska and you reach Russia in four hours.