As of a few years ago, I personally began seeing the rapidly escalating effects of global warming on our melting ice-caps in the Arctic. Even though this had been happening for several years prior. The echoes of voices of years past come back to haunt us of environmentalists, scientists, and a small handful of brave politicians of the warnings of global warming. Time after time, they would be shut down. "Global warming is a myth" "there is no scientific evidence" "It is a scare tactic by the crackpots." Those who denied the seriousness were those who had something to gain through exploitation. The rich, big business, and puppeteer politicians. In short, the single biggest point I want to make is, with the Arctic gradually opening up to new "exploration", these countries fighting for the landgrab, their sole motivational factor is how much oil they can exploit out of this territory. We have outgrown our britches, we rape and drain our resources in one area, and move on to the next. They entirely negate the real reason and concern of why these caps are melting in the first place! It is the greedy foaming at the mouth, caring less about our children's future, the world's future, our survival as a planet, but more on lining their pockets that is already spilling over in excess. -Mike