Sitting on top of the world

Now oil companies have an incentive to actually support global warming, rather than simply pretend it's not happening.

"We're very excited. There is great potential for increasing trade between North America and the Russian sphere," says the man responsible for expanding a port on Hudson Bay that accepts Russian crude destined for American cars, via newly ice-free Arctic shipping lanes.


Song now playing: Duke Ellington's 1940 recording of "Ko-Ko," one of the all-time great recordings. His piano part, commenting from underneath the horn section about 1:10 into the piece, is dastardly.