<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Arctic holds vast untapped oil and gas reserves]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Gustavion http://www.grist.org/article/USGS/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:00:04 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/USGS/1 Very Important Issue

Quite frankly, this is a VERY important issue. In the coming decades we will see the US, Russia, and Canada claiming stake to the Arctic Circle. The amount of oil and natural gas up there only raises the stakes. Not to mention that Russia just assumes that it deserves all of it.

If itâ€TMs profitable to dril for oil up north, itâ€TMs going to be done because Russia will have a stake up there and probably wonâ€TMt really restrict the area for environmental reasons.

That given, we as individuals need to take greater responsibility for the environmnet. I think it is important for us to support businesses that not only provide us our desired utility but also benefit the environment. For example, I came across a website http://www.simplestop.net that stops your postal junk mail and benefits the environment.

]]> Very Important Issue

Quite frankly, this is a VERY important issue. In the coming decades we will see the US, Russia, and Canada claiming stake to the Arctic Circle. The amount of oil and natural gas up there only raises the stakes. Not to mention that Russia just assumes that it deserves all of it.

If itâ€TMs profitable to dril for oil up north, itâ€TMs going to be done because Russia will have a stake up there and probably wonâ€TMt really restrict the area for environmental reasons.

That given, we as individuals need to take greater responsibility for the environmnet. I think it is important for us to support businesses that not only provide us our desired utility but also benefit the environment. For example, I came across a website http://www.simplestop.net that stops your postal junk mail and benefits the environment.

]]> Comment #2 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/USGS/ Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:18:07 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/USGS/2 No, Dino! Stay out of the Snow!


So, the Arctic has "vast resources" of ... what was it you called it...fossil fuel?

So, let's see...the dinosaurs, because they were hungry living in the rich tropics, decided to go up to the Arctic to find food...and then starved to death up there because they were given bad information by the AAA.

No, no...that's not it.   How about, years ago it was much warmer there, warmer than it is now when temperatures are caused entirely by man, and...wait...no, that won't work either.

Sheesh...I just don't know how them dinosaurs got up there?!!!

http://oilismastery.blogspot.com/2008/07/arctic-has-over- ...


]]> No, Dino! Stay out of the Snow!


So, the Arctic has "vast resources" of ... what was it you called it...fossil fuel?

So, let's see...the dinosaurs, because they were hungry living in the rich tropics, decided to go up to the Arctic to find food...and then starved to death up there because they were given bad information by the AAA.

No, no...that's not it.   How about, years ago it was much warmer there, warmer than it is now when temperatures are caused entirely by man, and...wait...no, that won't work either.

Sheesh...I just don't know how them dinosaurs got up there?!!!

http://oilismastery.blogspot.com/2008/07/arctic-has-over- ...


]]> Comment #3 by Des Emery http://www.grist.org/article/USGS/ Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:23:26 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/USGS/3 Geology

jabailo spouts his usual nonsense again.  Has he never heard of 'plate techtonics?'  Perhaps he thinks of that as setting the Arctic table for the migrating dinos, rather than the gradual transfer of portions of the Earth's crust from the tropic regions to the polar regions and vice versa.

If Global Warming is opening up the Arctic for undersea resource exploitation it is also causing the desertification of the northern lands with the increase in evaporization.

Extended summer seasons are now arriving a full month earlier and staying another month in the fall before the winter snows replenish the small creeks and streams on which the Inuit depend for fresh water.  Many ponds and lakes are now drying up in the summertimes, killing off both their flora and fauna which form one of the bases of the food chain which supports life there.

If we (humans) procrastinate getting off our oil dependency and switching to alternative power sources, it will soon enough be too late for us to do anything but say our prayers and wish each other "Godspeed into that dark night."  

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jabailo spouts his usual nonsense again.  Has he never heard of 'plate techtonics?'  Perhaps he thinks of that as setting the Arctic table for the migrating dinos, rather than the gradual transfer of portions of the Earth's crust from the tropic regions to the polar regions and vice versa.

If Global Warming is opening up the Arctic for undersea resource exploitation it is also causing the desertification of the northern lands with the increase in evaporization.

Extended summer seasons are now arriving a full month earlier and staying another month in the fall before the winter snows replenish the small creeks and streams on which the Inuit depend for fresh water.  Many ponds and lakes are now drying up in the summertimes, killing off both their flora and fauna which form one of the bases of the food chain which supports life there.

If we (humans) procrastinate getting off our oil dependency and switching to alternative power sources, it will soon enough be too late for us to do anything but say our prayers and wish each other "Godspeed into that dark night."  

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