«Virtually
none of our concerns or suggestions are
reflected in the royalty report... Those
ideas were passed over in favour
of a plan that could have been introduced by a PC or Wildrose government... We had high hopes at least some
of those progressive alternatives would have found their way into the final report.
None of the sea - ice specialists I've interviewed since 2000 on Arctic trends ever predicted a straight - line path to an open - water Arctic, but quite a few have stressed the longstanding
idea that as white ice retreats, solar energy that would have been
reflected back into space is absorbed by the dark sea, with that heat then melting existing ice and shortening the winter frozen season.