So everyone’s eyes were on copenhagen, waiting to find out what the next deal in climate change is. Kyoto expires by 2012, and the Americans were never keen about it so we have to come up with a new one. But it seems that the ‘Copenhagen Treaty’ is not going to materialise. On the one hand having to write Copenhagen, which is quite a long word every time I want to refer to the treaty is a bit of a pain, so that’s one avantage of not getting a deal there. And I think Kyoto has much more music to it, so if you are going to make a new treaty, at least make the name better.

On the other hand it kind of sucks for all these small islands. Barabdos apparenlty wasn’t so happy with the whole we need more time thing. Ed miliband, despite being all super optimistic about it is now watching his words. But I guess it’s only fair that these small islands sleep with the fish. I mean come on, when all the developed nations spent their time working hard in horrible weather, these islands were getting drunk in beach parties. Fun has to always come to an end, and at some point you are going to have to do some work.

If another year passes by and these developed nations can’t get anything done, I have a suggestion to Barbados and all these whose fate will be similar. Set up a national fund starting now, start saving and go easy on the booze, once your island(s) are completely drowned rent off a piece of another country with your saved money. Now start charging all the tourist divers who will want to dive to see the sunken cities and use this money to pay for the rent of your new land. Genius! And people say rising sea levels are a big deal, of course humans can adapt.

But is it a good riddance? Multiyear ice is, as the name might suggest, ice that has remained ice for years. Going through the summer-winter cycle without completely melting means that the ice starts to have different properties, less salt and more air pockets. It becomes quite tough to break as well. This is why ships tended to go the long way round, because they just couldn’t sail through this tough ice. But thanks to people like George Bush (it’s been a while since anyone mentioned him so I thought I would, he must be feeling neglected) now this ice is gone, in the arctic at least, where most of it used to reside. Because no piece of ice has survived for many years without melting, all the ice there is now is effectively new. While this is a sign for those who are not blind that the climate might actually be changing, there are still advantages to be gained.

The silver lining in this otherwise massive black cloud is that ships can now sail right through this mushy fresh ice without even an icebreaker showing the path. This will save a lot of time and energy (think ships saving fuel but this saving can’t be that much really!). This will also mean that exploration for stuff will be feasible. Let’s just hope they don’t find more oil there. But mainly it is minerals and whatever else they can make money out of. Bad news for Egypt though, seems like less ships will be going through the Suez Canal, and so less money into the country, not like we saw any of it anyway.

So some think that soon enough we would actually be able to sail over the north pole. No one said magnetic or geographic but I am guessing both. Now here I see an opportunity to be the first ship to sail over the north pole unaided. Anyone wants to join?