The Economist looks at countries vying for Arctic spoils:
Appleyard prods the global warming deniers:
Neither scientists, Guardian journalists nor tree-huggers are involved. Companies and countries are negotiating for the massive area of sea round the Arctic now made available by retreating ice. But I suppose they've just got it wrong and it's all some kind of weird trick of the light, snow blindness perhaps.
This article available online at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/01/smaller-and-smaller/206387/
