Exxon - Warming in the Arctic - Russia - Oil Wars - The Melting Ice Sheet
What's going on?
http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-arctic/
Exxon - Warming in the Arctic - Russia - Oil Wars
What's going on?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/world/united-states-russia-arctic-exploration.html
Has Corporate America been falling behind? Or has the US Government since the 1980s not been hard enough on developing plans for the Arctic?
What's going on?
are ideologically motivated citizens helping to kill American opportunities (some would say exceptionalism) in the near future?
Obama Frets Over Melting Ice While Putin Claims The Arctic
Even the Council on Foreign Relations has something to say about it
In the twenty-first century, many experts believe that climate change, technological advances, and rising global demand for resources may at last unlock the considerable economic potential of the Circumpolar North. The melting of Arctic sea ice to record lows in recent years has prompted many nations, principally those with Arctic Ocean coastlines—the United States, Canada, Russia, Norway, and Denmark (Greenland)—to reassess their commitments and interests in the icy reaches atop the globe.
Many forecast Arctic summers will be free of ice in a matter of decades, potentially opening the region up to hundreds of billions of dollars in investment, including energy production, shipping, and fishing. The thaw will also pose new security demands as greater human activity induces states to increase their military and constabulary presence. While most experts dismiss the prospects for armed aggression in the Arctic, some defense analysts and academics assert that territorial disputes and a competition for resources have primed the Arctic for a new Cold War.
http://www.cfr.org/arctic/emerging-arctic/p32620#!/
What's going on?
http://graphics.latimes.com/exxon-arctic/
Exxon - Warming in the Arctic - Russia - Oil Wars
What's going on?
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/world/united-states-russia-arctic-exploration.html
Has Corporate America been falling behind? Or has the US Government since the 1980s not been hard enough on developing plans for the Arctic?
Between 1986 and 1992, Croasdale’s team looked at both the positive and negative effects that a warming Arctic would have on oil operations, reporting its findings to Exxon headquarters in Houston and New Jersey.
The good news for Exxon, he told an audience of academics and government researchers in 1992, was that “potential global warming can only help lower exploration and development costs” in the Beaufort Sea.
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In 2012, with great fanfare, China sent a refurbished icebreaker, the Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, across one such route. Signaling its ambitions to be a “polar expedition power,” China is now building a second icebreaker, giving it an icebreaking fleet equal to America’s. Russia, by far the largest Arctic nation, has 41 in all.
“The United States really isn’t even in this game,” Admiral Zukunft said at a conference in Washington this year.
He lamented the lack of urgency in Washington, contrasting it with the challenges of the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other in the Arctic and beyond. “When Russia put Sputnik in outer space, did we sit with our hands in pocket with great fascination and say, ‘Good for Mother Russia’?”
Exxon - Warming in the Arctic - Russia - Oil WarsThe good news for Exxon, he told an audience of academics and government researchers in 1992, was that “potential global warming can only help lower exploration and development costs” in the Beaufort Sea.
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In 2012, with great fanfare, China sent a refurbished icebreaker, the Xuelong, or Snow Dragon, across one such route. Signaling its ambitions to be a “polar expedition power,” China is now building a second icebreaker, giving it an icebreaking fleet equal to America’s. Russia, by far the largest Arctic nation, has 41 in all.
“The United States really isn’t even in this game,” Admiral Zukunft said at a conference in Washington this year.
He lamented the lack of urgency in Washington, contrasting it with the challenges of the Cold War, when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other in the Arctic and beyond. “When Russia put Sputnik in outer space, did we sit with our hands in pocket with great fascination and say, ‘Good for Mother Russia’?”
What's going on?
are ideologically motivated citizens helping to kill American opportunities (some would say exceptionalism) in the near future?
Obama Frets Over Melting Ice While Putin Claims The Arctic
Even the Council on Foreign Relations has something to say about it
In the twenty-first century, many experts believe that climate change, technological advances, and rising global demand for resources may at last unlock the considerable economic potential of the Circumpolar North. The melting of Arctic sea ice to record lows in recent years has prompted many nations, principally those with Arctic Ocean coastlines—the United States, Canada, Russia, Norway, and Denmark (Greenland)—to reassess their commitments and interests in the icy reaches atop the globe.
Many forecast Arctic summers will be free of ice in a matter of decades, potentially opening the region up to hundreds of billions of dollars in investment, including energy production, shipping, and fishing. The thaw will also pose new security demands as greater human activity induces states to increase their military and constabulary presence. While most experts dismiss the prospects for armed aggression in the Arctic, some defense analysts and academics assert that territorial disputes and a competition for resources have primed the Arctic for a new Cold War.
http://www.cfr.org/arctic/emerging-arctic/p32620#!/
