So global warming melted the glacier in Alaska, now why shouldn't they drill for oil in the thawed parts?
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It wouldn't help the snvironment now would it?\n\nTo the best of my knowledge, none of the oil that goes through that ugly pipeline goes to the US anway! Doesn't it all go to Japan?\n\nWe need a few more Exxon Valdez dumps in Alaska. It's so good for all those animals up there.
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The polar ice will melt causing a massive increase in the amount of water on the Earth.  This flooding will then cause majority of the land to be submerse in water.  That's the main jist.
814186
the yes or no ones and the easy ones...\nglobal warming is causing glaciers to melt which sucks..
80234
Some places that are cold now like antarctica were once in warm places like the equator, so they had vegetation and animals on them. Our theory is that these organic materials produce hydrocarbons. Of course, climate change could also do this without plate tectonics, as well. However, these two processes work togeher.
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Because only 30 years ago, the same scientists were talking about the new ice age that was coming.\n\nAnd, historically, the Earth goes through hot and cold cycles. Greenland was once green. Ohio was once covered in glaciers.\n\nAnd right now, the sun is going through a cycle of increased activity. Mars is getting warmer, too. They don't have SUVs there.\n\nAs for whether there is any significant human activity contribution to the current increase in temperature, there is no data that suggests this.\n\nBut are you willing to cause civilization to collapse because of an unsubstantiated enviro-wanker scare tactic? The staggering cost of putting something like Kyoto into effect would cause a severe world depression worse than the Great Depression.\n\nDon't beleive the hype - someone is feeding you a load of bull.
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actually that's not correct.. because it is at a stasis (not all of it is under water) the melting of an iceberg would have 0 effect on ocean level, positive or negative.. it's the glaciers melting that are over land like at Antarctica that would cause the change, and they would drown most of the coastal US.\n\n\nhah, i wasn't trying to make a political statement about it... in all honesty my personal belief is that the natural cycle is much stronger than anything we can do and would find a way to balance itself out... but sure, if you wanted to harvest some water send someone to chip away at a glacier.. it's all the fresh water anyone would need for hundreds of years lol.. of course there would be pro's and con's for that.. but that's for the philosophers to debate.  I don't mind my hill top becoming beachfront.. but a few billion people might disagree with me.
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There just isn't enough oil in US arctic waters to make much more than a blip. If we enlarge drilling operations, we have two options: A small, negligible but steady supply, or a big, short-term operation that would also make a negligible difference.\nThe big issue is that it’s mostly low-grade crude, and any economic benefit is probably offset by the twin bugaboos of the additional refining costs, as well as the inevitable environmental cleanup.\n\nIf we assume Americans start using less gas—which is darn unlikely—then gas prices go up as oil and gas producers adjust to preserve their profits.\n\nAmerica, however, is about to become a bit player in all this. China will, within 10 or 15 years, out-consume America for oil, and there are NO efficiency measures on the horizon there, primarily because the demand is for industrial processes, not cars. If America slows the rate of increase in consumption, it will just mean that the global rate increases slightly less quickly. Bottom line: Nothing America does is going to have much of an impact on demand or supply.
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The only instance of animals dying in the ANWR is the caribou because they pass a pipe site, it was a coincedence that they were killed, it really won't affect the animals. Also, with the war and everything prices are going to be high for a long time, a private supply would give us oil for a long time! If you were at my school watching my groups presentation on why we should drill you would've had a more elaborate reason, sorry i can't give you more reasons, don't have the time.
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only as long as russia remains in control of there assets.\nthey have opend up new contracts for oil companies some were booted out also due to there demands,but there are vast fields there of oil and natural gas,and they do sell to china japan the us and europe,they are simply at the mostly max ability at the moment due to aging stations and abilities to transort it,new pipelines are going up and new routes opening due to ice melt and exposing even more fields,so global warming has its good sides also,doesnt it
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are you people seriously still gonna hold on to the lie that global warming is a hoax???!!!???   Wake the f*ck up people!!!   As a geologist who loves this earth and digs around in the dirt all a day,  I have seen first hand the effects of humans on this planet.... and it is horrible... you think you will live through the next ice age... well fire up your SUV's people and keep burning that oil, don't bother recycling, and you just might live to see it...   desalinization is a bad thing people, really, really bad....  don't believe keep on, keep on...  you ruining this place for your children and grandchildren...
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there is no unbias news sorce they are all liberal and it has been proven. but my opinion is it dosent exist. because think about it we are coming out of an ice age. it makes sense dosent it? fact: there have been ice ages. fact: there is a lot of ice in ice ages. so if you know about water then you know the same amount of it is here that was here when the earth began so literally it is dinasor piss. well during an ice age lots of stuff is covered in water/ice ( i know i live in minnesota and it is known that it was fully covered with ice.). so where is all the water? in ice bergs, glachiers, ect. so it would make sense that to leave an ice age most things would melt right? so they are still melting they will finish melting and cover parts of the world, then it will slowly freze causing an ice age. why would humans make that big of a difference? we are insignificant to the world.(everyone in the world could fit in texas and it would only be as densly populated as ny city). so our vehicles and combustable engines couldent have that big of an effect. but you say "what about the ozone thinning?" well i am not saying it hasent but it was because of the cfc's(cloral floral carbons) which broke up the ozone by atatching to ozone molocules. but the cfc's are no longer around. the ozone is healing itself as it is meant too. ther was no real hole only a thining which is also bad. but now it is closing up and returning to normal. if you think that the co2 we produced cant be good well think about it it isnt that mutch and while the earth was cooling after beieng created it released tons of co2. so what people will notice in the next 1-9000 years is it will warm up but in that time it will also cool down and eventually there will be an ice age. just because the great human race is here dosent mean that the earth will stop having ice ages as it has done by its self for billoins of years. think about it.
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The environmentalists and congress are to be blamed. The environmentalists won't let us drill offshore, every time the oil companies try they take them to court, they fight every effort to drill in ANWAR. The stupid republicans don't have the guts to stand up for it. Then we can't build new refineries because some treehugger is worried about a tree slug or some other worthless animal. When oil prices were low it was to expensive for oil companies to invest in new equipment, now that oil prices are up they are starting to re-invest, but it will take time.\n\nOh one other thing is all these stupid blends in this country that is mandated by the government that really don't do anything. Then forcing the oil companies to waste time on ethanol doesn't help either.\n\nWhile some local stations collude on what they are going to charge. (I have been in a gas station when another station has called to ask what they are charging that day).
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I was mad when the liberals wanted to block drilling for oil in Alaska during the beginning of George W. Bush's presidency, and now look at our dilemna!  I am very environmentally conscious and bike and walk when I can but I believe extremes will get us nowhere.  We have to look after our pocketbooks AND the environment.  There is a middle ground.  Show me a preservationist who doesn't drive and I will listen to him!
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Isn't global warming enough?! Because of this ice bergs are melting which mean animals will die. Air is becoming thinner which means we can die.  Global warming IS something to worry about!\n\nwww.stopglobalwarming.org
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As other people have pointed out, the oil is converted into combustion products (carbon dioxide, water, and assorted partial combustion products), all of which stick around in the atmosphere and therefore remain part of the Earth's mass. The energy comes from the binding energy of the hydrocarbon molecules. There is some mass associated with this energy, but it's minuscule.\n\nSecondly, even if the mass all that oil were destroyed, the change in Earth's overall mass would be insignificant.
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Because they are greedy. Instead of preserving the planet, they want to build or drill for oil. They think there is more money in that than in tourism. No all caring is not wrong. They just want you to think it's wrong. They are the ones who are wrong. Why destroy where you live? This is the only planet we have, we should be preserving it not destroying it.
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in Alaska if they had oil