Oil Queda

Several conflicts are generated in the seas today, after searching for new sources of energy resources, and now it was the turn of the cold Arctic waters.

Although the scenario becomes more bleak and dividends for decades with little interest, has unleashed the black gold fever frozen, after thawing due to global warming and the revelation of the Geological Survey of the United States, that there is the 25 percent of the hydrocarbons to be discovered on the planet.

According to the study, the Arctic, where territorially converge United States, Russia, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Finland has the second largest reserve of oil, behind only those of Zagros, Iran.

From the shores of Greenland could extract about 45 billion barrels of oil, a figure that would supply global consumption for a year and a half, plus minerals and diamonds becoming more affordable.

“The paradox is that climate change favors Arctic exploration. The oil companies do believe in climate change,” says Mariano Marzo, Professor of Energy at the University of Barcelona, before the advance of new niche.

On August 16 the Arctic ice last occupied 5.95 million square kilometers, 22 percent less than the average for 1979-2000, according to Ice Data Center and U.S. Snow.

That amount was the lowest figure since satellite measurements began in 1979. In one of the glaciers in the region fell off a plate that doubles in size to the city of Barcelona this pace may confirm scientists’ predictions that there could melt all the ice in the summer of 2070, as proof of its high sensitivity face of rising global temperatures.
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