It's almost time for a war with Canada, those imperialist land grabbing

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white people to our North.

They are trying to rain on the parade of our recent efforts to aid international navigation.

Melting Arctic ice risks Canada-US territorial dispute Thu Dec 1, 1:26 PM ET



MONTREAL (AFP) - Global warming is melting the Arctic ice so fast that a new sea route is opening up between the Atlantic and the Pacific -- and with it the risk of a territorial dispute between Canada and the United States.

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Temperatures around the North Pole are rising twice as fast as in the rest of the planet, according to UN and Canadian government experts.

By 2050, they warn, ships will be able to sail around northern Canada for most of the summer.

This could reduce the sea trip from London to Tokyo to 16,000 kilometers (9,950 miles), against 21,000 kilometers (13,000 miles) via the Suez Canal or 23,000 kilometers (14,300 miles) going through the Panama Canal.

The search for a Northwest Passage to Asia inspired explorers from the 15th to the 17th centuries. Many died. But now greenhouse gases are opening up the passage for them.

"There are now more and more ice-free portions of Arctic maritime territory," said Frederic Lasserre, a geographer and specialist on the Arctic, at Laval University in Quebec.

If a ship has a reinforced hull, and the winds and currents are in the right direction, it is already "relatively easy" to take the route around the small islands and straights around Canada's Arctic territory, Lasserre added.

Arctic temperatures are expected to rise significantly by the end of the century, according to experts, which will melt even more glaciers.

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It's time for a military alliance with Denmark.

Our need to teach these Canadian bastards a lesson is further enhanced that they have oil in their country.