[2009: At the peak of the annual Arctic ice melt, the Northwest Passage was so clear that this boat was only trapped in ice for two days]

The boat was held captive by ice for two very long days. Sprague worried about his son and two stepchildren, who were part of the crew. They had camping gear onboard and might have trekked to safety across the ice, but Theobald feared he might lose his boat.

“It was horrific,” he said. “We had no options and were truly on our own.”

[Early 1940s: Without the benefit of modern technology, a "small, woefully underpowered" vessel traverses the Northwest Passage three times]

Less than a half mile from my home in Vancouver, B.C. sits the RCMP Vessel Saint Roch. She's been declared a national monument or some such designation, and for good reason. In the early 1940's she traversed the Northwest Passage. Then she did it again. Then again, in the other direction. Three times, three times.
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This small, woefully underpowered vessel was the first to traverse the Northwest Passage west to east, was the first to traverse it more than once, was the first to traverse it in both directions, and was the first to circumnavigate North America (using the Panama Canal at the small end).

Tribes claim wind farm would destroy sacred ritual | Seattle Times Newspaper

From a blustery perch over a Cape Cod beach, Chuckie Green gestures toward a stretch of horizon where he says construction of the nation's first offshore wind farm would destroy his Indian tribe's religion.

Lib's climate turmoil | Herald Sun

A BITTER emissions trading catfight has broken out in the Coalition in the latest embarrassment for Malcolm Turnbull.

India: Developed world responsible for climate change: Mukherjee

“There is a commitment that industrialised countries, which have committed this mistake over the years - not one year, two years but 200 years - will have to bear the responsibility,” Mukherjee said.

Ok, let's say that you actually believe that CO2 is dangerous.

Is it fair to say that because I live in America now, I owe someone money because someone in America emitted CO2 200 years ago? 

And a rich guy in India (a guy who flies everywhere in a private jet) owes nothing because he lives in a developing country?