Climate change is a bitch

According to an article by the BBC, "the Arctic will be ice-free in the summer within the next twenty years. Much of the decrease will be happening within the next ten years. 'That means you'll be able to treat the Arctic as if it were essentially an open sea in the summer and have transport across the Arctic Ocean,' Peter Wadhams, who has been studying arctic ice since the 1960s, said. Although that would translate into quicker shipping routes and easier access to oil and gas reserves, Wadhams also warned it could have disastrous consequences for the planet."

Rico says we're into uncharted (warning: bad pun ahead) waters here. No one knows what's really going to happen when the Arctic melts; hide and watch. (And if you live on the Maldives, learn to swim...)