{"id":1680,"date":"2014-11-16T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2014-11-16T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T16:22:29","slug":"the-big-chill-tensions-in-the-arctic-fpif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=1680","title":{"rendered":"The Big Chill: Tensions in the Arctic &#8211; FPIF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fpif.org\/big-chill-tensions-arctic\/\">The Big Chill: Tensions in the Arctic &#8211; FPIF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">One hundred and sixty-eight years ago this past July, two British warships\u2014<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;\">HMS Erebus<\/em>\u00a0and<em style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;\">HMS Terror<\/em>\u2014sailed north into Baffin Bay, bound on a mission to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. It would be the last that the 19<sup style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;\">th<\/sup>-century world would see of Sir John Franklin and his 128 crew members.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">But the Arctic that swallowed the 1845 Franklin expedition is disappearing, its vast ice sheets thinning, its frozen straits thawing. And once again, ships are headed north, not on voyages of discovery\u2014the northern passages across Canada and Russia are well known today\u2014but to stake a claim in the globe\u2019s last great race for resources and trade routes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">How that contest plays out has much to do with the flawed legacies of World War II, which may go a long way toward determining whether the Arctic will become a theater of cooperation or\u2014in the words of\u00a0<a style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #0c74a6; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"former NATO commander\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/13\/opinion\/preventing-an-arctic-cold-war.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">former NATO commander<\/a>\u00a0and U.S. Admiral James G. Stavridis\u2014an \u201cicy slope toward a zone of competition, or worse, a zone of conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-hyphens: auto; margin: 1em 0px 1em 0px;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Big Chill: Tensions in the Arctic &#8211; FPIF. One hundred and sixty-eight years ago this past July, two British warships\u2014HMS Erebus\u00a0andHMS Terror\u2014sailed north into Baffin Bay, bound on a mission to navigate the fabled Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans. It would be the last that the 19th-century world would see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1018,369,553,1173],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-arctic","tag-global-warming","tag-nato","tag-north-sea-passage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1681,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}