... significance matter more than "objective" facts leads to a second assumption. Arctic conflicts are...In 1959, 12 countries signed an Antarctic treaty that "froze" all territorial claims in the ... existed on the status of the Arctic Ocean and the northern territories bordering it. Because...
That was only last week's polar news. It came hard on the heels of a storming visit to Resolute Bay on Canada's northern extreme by Stephen Harper, the prime minister. He announced a new deep-water port and military training base, declaring that "the first principle of Arctic sovereignty is use it or lose it. An oft-quoted figure -- that the region contains 25 per cent of the world's undiscovered oil and gas -- is generally attributed to America's Geological Survey. Don Gautier, who works for that agency, retorts that it has never done a systematic study of the Arctic, or put a figure on its energy riches. But the United States and other Arctic nations are doing a survey now, and a clearer picture may soon emerge. Despite the general surge of Slavic pride, Moscow's recent Arctic foray ...
... another expedition to map a giant swath of ocean floor. That was only last week's polar news. It ca... rate, not yet -- a simple race to create "facts on the ground" which can then be consolidated, and..., not its riches, look enviously at Antarctica, which was carefully parcelled out by a treaty reg...
... in the UK, I had learned about British Antarctic and Arctic explorations and the role of the Hudson... Trois-Rivieres to the Arctic and Pacific oceans spurred President Thomas Jefferson to dispatch the.... (2) The Alaska Almanac: Facts About Alaska, 21st edition (Portland: Alaska North...
... a titanium flag on the floor of the Arctic Ocean at the presumed spot of the North Pole. This act o...Antarctica, the only remaining continent not subject to state... the recommendations of the CLCS concern facts and scientific data, they also have important lega...
Before you start snoring, I should say that this particular Power Point show is a lot more exciting than it sounds, partly because [AL Gore] is a fluid, engaging speaker, and partly because he is addressing a life-and-death issue. What we do now, Gore says with great urgency and passion, could change our children's and grandchildren's future. An Inconvenient Truth has two clear purposes: to change American attitudes towards environmental issues, especially the Kyoto Protocol, and to rebrand Gore as a dynamic and personable winner. [Davis Guggenheim] warms up Gore's image by referencing some of his life-changing experiences, such as six months spent near the hospital bed of his six-year-old son after a terrible car accident. On the one hand, why shouldn't the producers, who are all po...
... Guggenheim and Gore start with the straight facts about carbon dioxide levels and global warming. Th... can have a deep impact on weather patterns, ocean levels, the extinction of some animal species and ... . After showing some Antarctic footage that bears a spooky resemblance to the B-m...
... Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the global oceanic and atmospheric commons. . The results of this nea...Major Antarctic ice shelves are disintegrating and the Arctic ice ...Flory, in "Just the facts," Foreign Affairs 85, no. 5 (September-October 200...
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