DB Chat: What's the better way to cope with possible icing in Arctic routes?

What to do?

  • Ignore Arctic icing and continue the way it's been

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Have some ice breaking ships in duty

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Accelerate global warming even more to compensate icing

    Votes: 2 28.6%
  • Build these Central Terra Novan and other aquachannels

    Votes: 3 42.9%
  • We may cope with it by sailing south

    Votes: 1 14.3%
  • Blame Thande for climatology

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Total voters
    7
15° Quintilis 2090 AUC (1337 AD)

The Massilis based Climatology Research Institute of the Roman Commonwealth has announced that the trend of manmade global warming might reverse to a global cooling by solely natural means. Consequently, the ice shield to be reported to strech as far as 150 miles from Thule in winter is going to expand to a size closing the Arctic Ocean permanently to nautics even in summer by the middle of the next century (AUC, would be AD 1400).

There are several approaches to deal with the problem. Some might ignore it after all, some might want to have ice breaking ships built, others think that moving sea traffic to the global south would be an acceptable adaption to global cooling. But it's also said that there are indeed plans to build massive water ways through Central Terra Nova and expand the now relatively primitive Sinai channels to replace the icing Arctic routes!

But what is your idea?



OOC: Assume we are in the 1300s of a TL where the lost centuries of the Middle Ages are avoided by Roman survival or anything else, comparable to Aetas Briani on Wikia, where a highly industrialized world has to cope with the "little ice age" of 1400 to 1800, hardening the passage of the Arctic Ocean significantly.
 
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