GLOBAL WARMING!

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People get off your Butts! Open your eyes and see what is happening to our planet. We are going to be the cause of our total destruction if we dont do something to day. This is not a prediction but a world wide destructive situation for our kids, families and future

If humans do not drastically reduce their fossil fuel consumption, and current trends continue, the world is heading for a significant temperature increase, melting polar ice caps and causing sea levels to rise between 0.9 and 1.6 meters this century, according to a study from the Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme released in early May.

The idea that global warming will melt polar icecaps and allow for new petroleum exploitation in the far north represents a terrible irony, says Andrea Harden-Donahue, a researcher with the Council of Canadians, a social justice organisation. “Climate change is making these resources easier to exploit, while burning these resources will only contribute to more climate change,” she says.

“In Canada, we have seen a number of well-known actors, including BP and Chevron, exploring for oil and gas in the Beaufort Sea. In the US, Shell is consistently trying to get access to resources off the coast of Alaska; BP hopes to develop off the coast of Russia and Cairn energy have already been awarded licenses inGreenland and they are likely to start [drilling] this year. “If [these companies] are allowed to move forward, I don’t think it is unreasonable that we would see a scramble for these resources.”

A 2008 cable quotes Russian Navy head Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky as saying: “While in the Arctic there is peace and stability, however, one cannot exclude that in the future there will be a redistribution of power, up to armed intervention.”

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