Gives new meaning to the term 'glacial'.
The Jakobshavn glacier in Greenland is retreating at a speed of 2 meters _per hour_ according to a study:
FWIW: I'm not persuaded either way about global warming; keeping an open mind.
Actually I do believe there is global warming. But I do not think it is due to the reasons politicians think it is. The world temperature has never been stable and changes frequently, and not only over 1000s of years.
shrugging off oil spill dangers Jan 06, 2014 Greenland has decided to open up one of the most fragile Arctic environments to oil drilling, brushing aside environmental concerns. BP, the company responsible for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, has won permission to drill in eastern Greenland.
The Anglo-American energy giant, held responsible for turning the Gulf of Mexico into an ecological catastrophe in 2010, has been given
exploration rights in eastern Greenland - an area of 2,630 square kilometers and the world's biggest island.
"Northeast Greenland is a long-term play, and we expect several years of careful planning before exploring this challenging and interesting region,"
BP said in a statement. "We look forward to working with the BMP [Greenland's Bureau of Mines and Petroleum] and partners to develop a 2D seismic work programme."
The Greenland government's decision is a complete U-turn from what it said only nine months ago, when a moratorium on any further drilling
was imposed due to environmental concerns. "The latest move is understood to be tightly connected to Greenland's striving for independence
from Denmark," RT's Aleksey Yaroshevsky said.
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Proving that the Cold War is well and truly dead, at least for multinationals, Putin gushed, "New horizons are opening up.
One of the world's leading companies, Exxon Mobil, is starting to work on Russia's strategic shelf and deepwater continental shelf.
The potential oil fields are some of the largest in circumpolar Arctic offshore area." The contract stipulates that Exxon Mobil and Rosneft will jointly spend $3.2 billion on deepwater exploration in the Russian Federation's East Prinovozemelskii region of the Kara Sea.
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The region may get 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5 centimeters) of snow and ice over the next three days as the storm moves from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean, according to the U.S. National Weather Service.
Sleet and snow will begin falling late today or early tomorrow, the agency said.
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Not that it was, of course.
Actually the globe hasn't warmed recently.
In message , Huge writes
No but you wouldn't expect the Americans to blame one of their own would you?
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