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Saturday, March 11, 2006

THE "SHRINKING ARCTIC ICE CAP" IS GOOD NEWS

DER SPIEGEL:
Global warming isn't necessarily the catastrophe it's made out to be. ... Shrinking ice caps would reveal the Arctic's massive energy sources and shorten tanker routes by thousands of miles.
PRAVDA:
The amount of mineral resources concentrated in the Arctic zone is huge. For example, 91% of natural gas production and 80% of Russia's explored reserves of industrial-grade natural gas are amassed in that region. It also contains 90% of all Russian extractable offshore reserves of hydrocarbons.

The hydrocarbon deposits in a deep-water area of the Arctic Ocean are estimated in 15-20 billion tons. The Arctic also has deposits of nickel, copper, wolfram, gold, silver, manganese, chromium, and titanium.
It would also reveal new areas for agriculture and aquaculture, and provide places for people to work and live. Maybe this will be the beginning of a great new era of pioneering? Maybe GREENLAND, will become green again, and maybe new, year-round settlements in the Great GREEN North will spring up, beginning a new era of growth and improving living standards for millions of people - everywhere?

Oh... er um... but what about those 4000 Polar bears? Hmmm... I say: Let them move in with the tree-huggers and the spotted owls. Seriously. I think the sky-is-falling global-warming crowd should CHILL OUT: (1) Global warming IS DEFINITELY NOT man-made - (so there's NOTHING we can do about it, not here and not on Mars!); and (2) it may very well have BENFICIAL consequences.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

what do yo mean we cant do anything about global warming?

for starters we can make sure we close the refrigerator door!

do yo know how many millions of refrigerators have doors open too long! and what about thos light bulbs in there. I bet they turn on at night to use some more energy!

We need to set up government agencies that can regulate how many times we open the fridge, and charge us if we snack too much!