Arctic Oil

I assume everyone already knew this, the Arctic has vast reserves of oil.

A new study suggests the equivalent of 112 billion barrels of oil lies undiscovered underneath the sea ice and frigid waters of North America’s Arctic, adding new urgency to the debate over control of those resources.

The report released Wednesday by the United States Geological Survey has for the first time put some hard numbers behind the energy potential of the North.

Total undiscovered global reserves north of the Arctic Circle are estimated at 412 billion barrels of oil equivalent — most off the coast of Russia. That’s about one-third of the world’s undiscovered gas and about one-sixth of its undiscovered oil.

“That’s huge,” said William Lacey, director of FirstEnergy Capital, a Calgary energy analysis firm. “It’s massive in terms of the resource.

“It highlights why there’s some potential boundary disputes in the North.”

And what do we have to show for it, a loser from San Francisco and Harry Reid another loser from Nevada, who wants to drive the country into the sewer of environmental Marxism? Who made these freaks king? America is a representative republic, not a dictatorship.

Oh yeah, someone tell the EIB clown, Boxer that the AGW theorey is dead, deader than can be. All that is left is for it to fall over on it's face.

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The North Pole Is Melting

Surprised scientists find that their theories of how undersea volcanoes were thought to behave were wrong. Even when the volcanoes are miles deep under water, they can violently erupt and spew rock, lava and huge quantities of hot gases of all sorts.

Even under the Arctic ice cap.

New evidence deep beneath the Arctic ice suggests that a series of underwater volcanoes have erupted in violent explosions in the past decade.

Hidden 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) beneath the Arctic surface, the volcanoes can range up to more than a mile (2 kilometers) in diameter and a few hundred yards (meters) tall. They formed along the Gakkel Ridge, a lengthy crack in the ocean crust where two rocky plates are spreading apart, pulling new melted rock to the surface.

Until now, scientists thought undersea volcanoes only dribbled lava from cracks in the seafloor. The extreme pressure from the overlying water makes it difficult for gas and magma to blast outward…..

Robert Reeves-Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and his colleagues discovered jagged, glassy fragments of rock scattered around the volcanoes, suggesting that explosive eruptions occurred between 1999 and 2001.

Now there is this standard disclaimer that any of these volcanoes could possibly have anything to do with the melting of Arctic ice is pure fiction, right? Huge volcanoes under the North Pole, melting the Arctic sea ice, naw couldn't be, could it? How would it warm the water it's so deep. I wonder, is the calderas still hot down there? Yes I know it sounds convoluted that volcanoes couldn't possible melt the ice above them and change the Arctic currents, but these days you have to be politically correct.

While much is made by the true believers and the media (yes, that was redundant, wasn't it?) about the melting of Arctic ice, very little is written about the rapidly growing Antarctic ice. And it is growing very rapidly, indeed. See for yourself: North Pole, South Pole. Here's the Southern anomaly. That is not a declining trend, folks.