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Melting Polar Ice Sparks Good News For Oil Companies
Most people like the bad news first so here it goes. For the first time in human history the North Pole will not be surrounded by frozen ice, providing more direct evidence to the global warming trend. Now the good news. Arctic nations and oil companies could benefit greatly, since they'll be "able to exploit the valuable oil and mineral deposits below these a bed which have until now been impossible to extract because of the thick sea ice above." See, not all's lost. |Independent|
by ANIMAL on June 27, 2008
