[Night Hides Not]

I need some help here, from a global warming standpoint. If oil is truly a "fossil" fuel, then there had to be boatloads of dinosaurs way up north for millions of years.

Since dinosaurs were cold-blooded animals, would that not imply that the Arctic ice cap has evolved over millenia?

[thackney]

You need to consider thousands of millions of years of Teutonic plate movement. The following is only the last few hundred million.

Two points to also consider:

Petroleum Geology typically considers the predominate source of oil from things like algae and other biologicals in ocean sediment.

The North Coast of Alaska also has dinosaurs' fossil discoveries.

http://www.blm.gov/ak/st/en/prog/culture/dinosaurs.html

[dangus]

Continental Drift. But while I believe in continental drift, etc., I think the Norwegians put a pretty good ding into it with their theory that oil, instead, bubbles up from the mantle-crust boundary: I remember that they found the North Sea reserves by speculating it’d be where oil bubbled up, while all the paleontologists thought they were crazy.