[scotth]

Can't tell if this is a joke — the arctic is floating ice, not land.

[forgatmigej]

You might be thinking of the Arctic Ocean. As far as I know, the Arctic is the area enclosed by the northern polar circle. It includes land, and some of your favorite countries are partly inside the polar circle

[fulafel]

There are a bunch of cities as well, and other populated areas, so mind your step in picking areas you plan to settle: https://notebookfromthenorth.com/2019/11/10/20-cities-of-the... https://www.sidmartinbio.org/what-is-the-population-of-the-a...

[scotth]

Ah, I stand corrected.

[bijant]

There is quite a lot of land within the arctic circle. If it continues to warm up it will become more conductive to human settlements and agriculture. hn is a place where most people see the upsides of change, I don’t understand why so few here admit the benefits of climate change.

[mym1990]

Certainly any large scale change will bring benefits for some groups and problems for others, but at a net level it is hard to see the benefits outweighing the costs for climate change. But all of those things are so hard to model and this article is one of the many pieces that points to that.

Curious questions though: If the Arctic region becomes habitable, who presides over it? Will it just become a haven for the rich? Can it be used as a model to figure out how to settle other planets?

[emodendroket]

I was kidding.