I was reading Mahan the first time since Navy ROTC and got to thinking about you young guys flying up north when you are old like me. The outlook, with God made global warming cycle or man made or both, is for a degree or so warmer. With ice breakers or no ice or both, the Northwest Passage will elevate Canada's influence in the world according to Admiral Mahan's focal points orientation.

Both air forces and naval have been navigating great circle routes for years, but I remember the question about the fastest method of transporting the 101st Airborne Division to Vietnam The choices were the 12 C5-As available around the clock in air refueling with no down time for maintenance or one old WWII Liberty ship. The Liberty ship, of course. All divisions went that way in one month. Ships, not aircraft, haul the commerce of the global economy.

My question is where, on the Northwest Passage, will the cities and nice hotels be? I want to make some trust investments for my grandchildren's inheritance.

Arctic Ice is below normal as of 8-December. Hudson Bay is almost open water.

Does this mean Kavik will become the new resort 'destination'?

Ol' Sue better get ready for some new clientele!

Alan

I haven't been that far north but I've been far enough north to know all the good hotels and cities will be much further south.

Much, much further south.

I've lived on the shore of the arctic ocean for 46-years now and believe me, it will be quite some time (somewhere between many decades and never) before there are resort hotels at this latitude. The media is all doom and gloom about climate change but the fact is that the changes here have (so far) been minor, mostly positive and have not affected our life-style in any significant way.

The northwest passage may very well never become an economically viable shipping route. Currently there are container ships plying the northwest passage during the summer months, but they are carrying cargo from Canadian ports in the south to the northern communities. To my knowledge there has never been a commercial voyage through the northwest passage from Europe to Asia, nor has there been any talk of such ventures even though summer ice condition have been favourable (though variable) at least for the past 100-years for ice-strengthened cargo ships.

I've learned to be sceptical of "experts".

I believe NunavutPA-12 pretty much hit it on the head. HOWEVER if you are looking to invest in the future I have some future beachfront property in Montana and some property on Little Cornwallis Island. Both have the potential of becoming tropical beach resorts in the future.(hehe)

My son sent me a coffee cup world map that has a heat sensitive coastline that recedes when hot.It doesn't say how many centuries it will take.

I remember when building golf courses around the country people said the weather is not usually like this.