How Arctic melting could benefit shippers, oil companies

November 24th, 2008 By Renee Schoof

With global warming melting the Arctic's eons-old ice at an alarming rate, shipping and oil companies are looking ahead at how to exploit the new open waters.



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  • Mauricio - Nov 24, 2008
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    This new money making schema is the reason behind they are so slow in doing anything to reduce global warming: "follow the money".
  • mikiwud - Nov 25, 2008
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    Ice melting? Someone is going to be disappointed!
  • Velanarris - Nov 25, 2008
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    Why is the focus on oil companies, why not a company that ships medical supplies to third world nations, or UN shipments of food stuffs?

    The negative connotation could have been avoided.
  • GrayMouser - Nov 25, 2008
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    "Scientists say the Arctic's seas could be essentially free of ice in the summertime by mid-century"

    Wasn't this supposed to happen this year? Didn't these same "scientists" predict last year and this year a total loss of ice in the Arctic? Don't they ever learn?
  • Noein - Nov 25, 2008
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    Why is the focus on oil companies, why not a company that ships medical supplies to third world nations, or UN shipments of food stuffs?


    Because we all know that big oil is very eager to rape and plunder the Arctic.
  • GeorgeR - Nov 26, 2008
    • Rank: 5 / 5 (5)
    I feel sorry for the oil companies because I just looked at the Daily Arctic Sea Ice Maps and the ice sure isn't melting. But, I'll just sit here enjoying the unbelievable cool weather in the Florida Keys.
  • Velanarris - Nov 26, 2008
    • Rank: 4 / 5 (4)
    Noein,

    Now that you have that out of your system, would you care to list 3 detrimental things that opening a new shipping route results in?
  • MikeB - Nov 26, 2008
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    Noein... I am still wondering about the derivation. Is Noein short for no einstein? Not a putdown, I am really just wondering.
    Awaiting your answer,
    Mike
  • MikeB - Nov 27, 2008
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    My wife had moved some furniture to clean the floor. Unfortunately, two chairs blocked my way into the kitchen. With much difficulty, I moved those two chairs, clearing the way for me to rape and plunder the refrigerator.
  • thelastredneck - Nov 27, 2008
    • Rank: 5 / 5 (4)
    My only source of transportation is a motorcycle. When is global warming coming? I'm freezing my ass off!

    Screw you guys with heaters in your cars. I'm spraying all the CO2 I can into the air. Does anyone know where I can buy more CO2? The local Home Depot won't get more until january.
  • thelastredneck - Nov 27, 2008
    • Rank: 5 / 5 (4)
    Son of a bitch!

    I just found out even the most optimistic global warming nuts are only calling for a 3 degrees celsius improvement. And even then, it won't happen for many years. I feel like I've been spraying CO2 for nothing. Thanks a lot GWN (global warming nuts)!

    Next you're probably gonna' tell me the whole "Hole In The Ozone Layer" was bullshit too! I spent whole weekends spraying hairspray into the air! All those wasted CFC's!

    I'm really starting to question my faith in the ENBSAOP (environmental nut-bag society of America and other places).

  • thelastredneck - Nov 27, 2008
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    If you can't do better than this crap, I'll have no choice but to go back to killing whales.
    Almost 50 years to perfect your art, and Global Warming is the best you can do? And now you're even backing off that!

    Climate Change? What the hell is that supposed to mean? You don't even have the grapes to stick with Global Warming? Are you scared people will notice if the globe refuses to get warmer? So what? The ozone layer is still there right? Nobody cares! Just stick with your original slogan. Slogans are everything. In ten years nobody will even remember that it's your fault. By then you'll have another SLOGAN! Maybe "Oil Industry Global Sucky-ness". Yeah, that sucks. But you'll come up with something. That's why you're the experts!

    Keep your head up! "Global Staying The Same Temperature", could be the next Global Warming!
  • MikeB - Nov 27, 2008
    • Rank: 5 / 5 (3)
    First it was Global Warming, then Climate Change, now it's Mega-Death Global Climate Human Killer... Al Gore's new even scarier boogie bear.
  • lengould100 - Nov 28, 2008
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    First it was a genuine site of interesting dialogue on real science. Then it was just another place where nutbags hang out. Bye.
  • Velanarris - Nov 28, 2008
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    First it was a genuine site of interesting dialogue on real science. Then it was just another place where nutbags hang out. Bye.


    Yeah, damn you AGW movement. You've chased all the real scientists into hiding.
  • Roach - Dec 05, 2008
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    Rehashing an old post, but to answer you redneck, There has never been a study of the ozon layer between 30degrees north and 30degrees south. Want to know why? No one has ever found it. If the donut shaped "layer" above the polar regions didn't exist we'd have never decided the rest of it must exist. And again no one has ever conclusivly said whether the polar holes in the ozone layer are truly from all the leaking refridgerators and AC units in the antarctic or if it's due to the increased solar plasma flow diverted and concentrated at the poles by the Earths Magnetic fields. So in short the CFC thing may not work as well as we hoped either.

    Personally I think if you want heat get something with a heater. SUVs are going cheep right now:) Or maybe a nice 1 ton duelly dodge with a Cummins Diesel.

    Or in order to be green burn a renewable fuel source for heat... I vote squirrels I can't get rid of those little B***** Poison, gun, clear cutting, gasoline and match.

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