What's the upside of global warming? Why, once the ice is gone from Greenland, it will open up whole new regions for oil exploration.
Joern Skov Nielsen, deputy director of Greenland’s Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, said Thursday that there might be more oil in his country than the entire past production of the North Sea. That would be about 50 billion barrels. Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Husky Energy last year received licenses for exploration, which will be made easier by the melting of Greenland’s ice.
By the time we've burned all the oil in Greenland, Antarctica is bound to be ice-free. Just imagine all the resources we'll find down there!
Please remind the presidential candidate of your choice that changing the sources of energy in the United States isn't a nice option at the end of a long list of "gotta haves." Energy -- the source of which will determine everything from our foreign policy to our economy -- needs to be first.