WikiLeaks Documents Hint of Slick Plans for Arctic Oil

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May 25, 2011

By Joel N. Shurkin
Inside Science News Service

(ISNS) -- With Arctic ice receding at an unprecedented pace due to global warming, many nations seem far more interested in carving up the newly exposed resources than doing something to slow climate change, according to documents released by WikiLeaks.

According to the leaked State Department papers, even characteristically calm countries are staking claims and warning others to stay out of their way. Unlikely allies like the U.S. and China have joined to fight against any environmental agreement not suitable to their self-interest.

The changing climate is creating business opportunities never dreamed of before. At stake could be as much as one quarter of the world's gas and oil reserves, once hidden under huge masses of ice and inaccessible through frozen seas. Greenland's fossil fuel reserves alone may equal those of the North Sea.

That the Arctic is melting is beyond debate. The ice is melting faster than conservative computer models predicted.

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1. We're only part of the problem

BP and the Russians are planning to drill, the Norwegians want to start exploration in the Barents sea and a Scots consortium owns that rig the Danes are guarding off Greenland. It will take a binding global agreement to stop this and as we know from experience with various climate conferences, there will be pigs roosting in the ham trees before that happens.

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2. Fossil fuel usage could be reduced dramatically if we could force ourselves to

view water as fuel.

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