The normal habitat of polar bears continues to shrink.
Posted on 03/11/2006 6:25:17 PM PST by mathprof
Global warming isn't necessarily the catastrophe it's made out to be -- at least not for multinational oil companies. Shrinking ice caps would reveal the Arctic's Imassive energy sources and shorten tanker routes by thousands of miles.
Ice-cap melting may be bad news for the polar bears in Manitoba, Canada, but it is great news for Pat Broe of Denver. When the ice melts in the Arctic, the polar predators have to search for new hunting grounds or starve -- but Broe doesn't mind. He figures global warming will make him around $100 million a year.
His friends laughed at him when he bought the run-down port in Churchill -- a tiny outpost of a thousand souls on the Hudson Bay. What could he possibly want with a harbor in one of the most deserted places on the planet that's frozen over a big chunk of the year?
Via Arctic waterways, an oil tanker only needs a week to make it from the Russian port city Murmansk on the Barents Sea to the east coast of Canada. That's only half the time it takes from Abu Dhabi on the Persian Gulf to Galveston, Texas. And from Churchill to Chicago on the Hudson Bay Railway, it's not much further than from Texas to the Windy City. Tankers from Venezuela to Japan can even save some 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) by traveling over the pole.
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The normal habitat of polar bears continues to shrink.
Does that mean he'll profit from dry ice?
He will be able to sell ice cubes to Eskimos.
I'll give the Polar bear pelts a home any day.
Great pic.Mom to photographer,"back off!!"
Whats in other news? Exploding sun helps lightbulb producers?
I think he forgot a minor detail that all these global warming nutjobs tout, that the sea level will rise umpteen feet as the caps melt. His $7 investment is going underwater--assuming it goes anywhere at all.
If all the scientific evidence for global warming was typed in 12 point font on 8 1/2 by 11 paper, and stacked up in one pile, it wouldn't stand high enough to steady a wobbly table. If all the scientific evidence for global warming was printed in 12 point font on 1 inch chips of confetti, you could dump it on Times Square out of a single window with a single dump of a wastebasket. If all the scientific evidence for global warming was run on a tv network at about the same size and speed as the average movie credit, Herve Villachaize would still be a bigger screen presence. If all the scientific evidence for global warming was read on the radio, Right Said Fred would still get more airtime the same day.
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